With the growing feminisation of the gig economy, this article tries to understand how the gig economy has structural gendered problems and how things might evolve or change with policies and ...

This paper reflects upon how the 1971 specific factor model of Ronald W Jones still holds its relevance in the face of growing within-country income inequality that has led to rising discontent for ...

A close look at the Periodic Labour Force Survey data so far reveals a definite increase in the participation of women, especially in rural India. This optimism fades as this has occurred mostly in ...

In Rahul Sadasivan’s film Bramayugam, the dynamics of oppression and subjugation are intricately interwoven with the regulation of bodily autonomy.

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Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Interventions That Made a Difference edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, Neelima Khetan and Jayapadma R V, Gurugram: HarperCollins, 2022; pp 380, `699.

The genocide of the people of Palestine is still ongoing. Despite a plethora of video evidence and testimonies from Palestine itself, the world remains deaf to the cries of Palestinians. Locating the ...

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 ...

In Vesper, the institutional safeguards of civil society have been replaced by the sociopathic figure of the middle person who relays authority through psychological and physical intimidation.

By providing an easy and elegant “answer” to the complex process of development, albeit a wrong one, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson’s rise to prominence has lent support to a very ...

In India’s federal financial structure, the management of the public finances of the states is equally, if not more, important than the public financial management of the union. The article presents a ...

In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, requiring a 43% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by ...