Indian state that “plans well but implements poorly” have hitherto drawn from a limited range of broad positions, ranging from the political economy lens focused on patronage, elite capture and ...

The potential of the horticulture sector was first recognised during the Fourth Five Year Plan (1969–74) as a means of enhancing farmers’ incomes. However, the imperative of achieving self-sufficiency ...

This article delves into the multifaceted journey of India's Women's Reservation Bill (WRB) enacted through the 106th amendment to the Indian Constitution in September 2023. Allocating 33 percent of ...

However, the fact that no tribal community was enumerated in the list of Scheduled Tribes (STs) after the adoption of the Constitution of India was lost to lawmakers, academia, and various government ...

Again, surprisingly, neither the news of “sudden” US–Israel air strikes on numerous Iranian targets nor the “headline focus” on the latest war in the Gulf region’s impact on China came as a surprise ...

Among these, the freedom of speech was an important provision, under which the idea of free press was also included. Over the years, several policies and laws were formulated to implement these ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

For economic growth to be inclusive, productive employment opportunities have to be generated on a large scale. In other words, different categories of workers—the unskilled, semi-skilled and ...

With such porous and relational boundaries, the act of taking care is inevitably politicised and gendered. Piku: Motion Se Hi Emotion (2015) depicts a daughter (played by Deepika Padukone), who, ...

A dispute that had persisted for over a century was resolved within less than three weeks, raising questions not only about the substance of the order but also the speed with which judicial closure ...

Bill in the Lok Sabha has reined in the union government’s design to significantly alter the electoral make-up of the country. Perhaps anticipating such a denouement as the numbers in Parliament were ...

India, a culturally rich and diverse country, has witnessed rapid economic development in the last few decades. However, the growth witnessed in recent times has created a divide between rural and ...