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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Longwa was an extraordinary Konyak Naga village bisected by the Indo-Myanmar border. The geopolitical and cultural hybridity in the village disrupts conventional maps and highlights the complex ...

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

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 ...

Whether it is the “two” or “multiple Indias” or the “uncle jokes” or the marginalised comedians, of late, stand-up comedy has gathered attention, compelling even the top courts to intervene. What is ...

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 ...