Community engagement is crucial for India’s ambitious target of establishing carbon sinks to combat climate change. By fostering local ownership, facilitating knowledge sharing, and promoting ...

City bus services in Mumbai are deteriorating as the BEST undertaking is facing financial hardships, a declining fleet strength, and a poor modal share. The authorities are deploying electric buses, ...

It is difficult to describe the sense of sadness and loss that I felt when I heard of the death of Amiya Kumar Bagchi on 28 November. As they say, we went back a long way: to the autumn of 1973, some ...

The vertical fiscal imbalance in India, as in many other countries, arises out of the expenditure obligations of the states being more than their revenue-raising powers. The provisions for addressing ...

The recently adopted World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge has been hailed for achieving the best possible ...

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This is an appeal to the subscribers, contributors, advertisers and well-wishers of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), published by Sameeksha Trust, a public charitable trust registered with the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...