Australia’s new legislation banning social media access to children below the age of 16 is the first legislative attempt in the world to do so. It comes after years of research on the harmful effects ...

Conventional history writing identifies historically “significant” events and weaves them into a coherent chronology. This process lends a sense of fixity to the events—both temporal and spatial. This ...

A Kaleidoscope of People, Culture, and Nature edited by Paul Hockings, Orient BlackSwan, 2023; pp 292, `975.

A total of 161 academic publications on the subjects of social mobility and opportunity in India that have appeared since the early 1960s and are concerned with one or more of educational, ...

Despite strong mobilisation efforts since 1953 and numerous private member bills, domestic workers in India remain unrecognised as a sector requiring welfare and protection. This paper examines the ...

During October 2021 and February–March 2022, Indian power exchanges experienced a significant gap between buy and sell bids. In 309 time blocks, the market cleared at the maximum price due to the ...

The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of contemporary affairs every week. EPW is one of the few publications that keep alive the spirit of intellectual inquiry in ...

Studies have proposed that work on digital labour platforms is precarious. This paper argues that there is heterogeneity of ...

One of the most innovative components of the Reserve Bank of India’s proposed expected credit loss provisioning framework for ...

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

The paper analyses the patterns and trends in the labour markets in India spanning over four decades from 1983 to 2024. It also examines the long-term trends in labour force participation rates with a ...

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