We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators apt to assess policy reforms in situations of fragile states. Finally, using micro level data we show that the plausible po...

Ten percent of the Americans arrested for storming US Capitol on January 6, 2021, are military veterans. These veterans have been charged with federal crimes ranging from Obstruction an Official Proceeding to Assaulting Police Officers. This paper seeks answer three questions related those veterans’ participation in Riots. Were their actions patriotic? What were motivations? And was there anyth...

Ranu Uniyal and Arundhati Subramaniam are contemporary Indian English Poets. They deeply rooted in soil. Their poems full of ethos deal with a wide variety subjects. Spiritual nationalism is one them. Like Aurobindo Ghosh, for them means true devotion towards one’s country its people irrespective their faith, caste, race sex. India multilingual, multicultural multireligious country. The conflic...