In honour of the late Mr. Dhruba Narayan Ghosh — a superb civil servant, a distinguished corporate leader, an innovative banker, a builder of institutions, a natural leader, a scholar, a columnist and ...

India’s solar irrigation programme is going seriously astray. Off-grid solar pumps waste two-thirds of the energy they generate. Maharashtra’s solar agricultural feeders avoid energy waste but ...

The Humanities in India as Pluralist Pedagogy by Daniel J Rycroft, Orient BlackSwan, 2023; pp xvii + 98, ₹555 (paperback). The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of ...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led coalition has emerged victorious in the recent Jharkhand assembly elections, indicating that public memory against perceived assaults upon protective legislation is ...

Classifying ecosystem services under five groups, the issues raised by ecological economists on sustainable scale, use of marginal analysis, and distributional equity are considered. The need for ...

Recently, in a case before the Supreme Court, Justice B V Nagarathna observed that “[i]t is not enough to find comfort solely in the growing number of female judicial officers if we are unable to ...

Welfare schemes cannot be subsidised by the exploitation of front-line workers. Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) in Kerala have been on strike at the state’s capital over the last one month ...

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The authors are grateful to an anonymous referee for the suggestions to improve the earlier draft of this article. There are several structural limitations within the inclusion system of Uttar Pradesh ...

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Since the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, the initiation of the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISEPlus) and Student ...

This paper is a first attempt to track the inflation rates of the distribution of Indian households based on consumption weights of different fractiles of rural and urban households from 2015 to 2023.