Primary education, of acceptable quality, creates the base. Equal opportunities, along with universal access, in school education are critical, but access without quality is no access. Higher ...

But women poets existed in the Urdu literary sphere, leading lives vibrant enough to be recorded in antho­logies. Farhat Hasan’s Voices in Verses: Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth ...

It is, therefore, a major policy strength as well as a step forward that the third educational policy of independent India, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, coming 34 years after the second ...

For India, this presents a foundational strategic challenge. While the impulse to pursue a full-scale de-dollarisation—an active strategy to replace the dollar—is understandable, the wiser path is ...

The splendid success story of the green revolution in Punjab not only helped the country achieve its much-needed food self-sufficiency but also put Punjab on a higher growth trajectory. With merely 1.

Sixty-year-old Nanchan from Kuppam Colony was trampled by an elephant, while gathering forest produce near the Tamil Nadu border. The elder described the elephant as a “lost protector,” displaced by ...

However, the sector faces considerable challenges due to heightened price instability resulting from increased global market integration, which disproportionately affects smallholders (Rangachary 2006 ...

When asked why the ECI had not released the footage from the CCTV cameras installed in polling booths, chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar argued that it would amount to a breach of ...

This was not entirely unexpected as consumer price inflation has been steadily falling from the previous peak of 6.2% in October 2024, a fall of close to 5 percentage points over the last nine months, ...

The Economic and Political Weekly invites articles from researchers and policy analysts for the second special issue on industrial transformation to be published towards the end of 2025/ early 2026.

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 ...