Unfortunately, from an empirical perspective, measuring individual welfare from household consumption surveys is challenging because the unit of observation is not the individual member of the ...

Kerala has had frequent recurrences of climate-related calamities in recent years. Over the last decade, the frequency of landslides as well as the number of fatalities and property damage caused by ...

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

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

This mobilisation has gained greater visibility since the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise to national power in 2014. Women have played an active role in advancing campaigns such as “love jihad,” ...

Migration-driven urbanisation is a key feature in contemporary India. Internal migration of workers in India is often embedded in a complex socio-economic dynamic shaped by structural barriers, ...

Indian cinema has been observed to be feudal in structure for decades. Although the Government of India acknow­ledged its status as an industry in the new millennium, the paternalistic hierarchical ...

India’s inflation targeting framework should consider targeting inflation, excluding food. Higher food prices are, more often, not demand-induced but supply-induced. Short-run monetary policy tools ...

Environmental problems arise from human interaction with the natural world (Attfield 2018). The environment is integral to a nation’s progress and its citizens’ overall quality of life.Environmental ...

While it does not automatically suggest that the subject of rehabilitation is relatively undermined in the new act, an unstarred question (LSUS QNO 3007 FOR 08.08.2023) raised in the Lok Sabha is ...

This rerelease trend has emerged as a lifeline for India’s struggling theatre industry, particularly single-screen venues that have been grappling with declining footfall. The advent of over-the-top ...

Each year, as I scroll through the schedule of different literature festivals across the country, I wonder what is festive about literature or how literature becomes an event of celebration. For a ...