Global growth, which was hovering around the long-term average and gaining momentum—supported by the investment boom in the technology sector, easing trade policy tensions, and accommodative financial ...

This paper examines the impact of participation in global value chains (GVCs) on the productivity of Indian manufacturing firms. The analysis draws on data for approximately 14,000 manufacturing firms ...

The exception clause states that “sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under eighteen years of age, is not rape.” Meanwhile, the BNS criminalises domestic violence through ...

However, one can see a departure from this well-established tradition in the recent Supreme Court decisions in M Siddiq (D) Thr Lrs v Mahant Suresh Das and Ors (2018) or the Ayodhya case, In Re ...

How are judges appointed, trained, disciplined, criticised, mysticised, and publicised? What changes are needed in this important, but hitHow are judges appointed, trained, disciplined, criticised, ...

We need them. They’re not like the African Tutsi clan that we can subjugate. Who will do this house construction?“We need them. They’re not like the African Tutsi clan that we can subjugate. Who will ...

This change has been driven by Nepal’s Gen Z uprising in September 2025. What started as a peaceful protest against the corrupt and entrenched leaders of established political parties on 8 September ...

A study by Pawlak and Kołodziejczak (2020) highlights that approximately 13% of the population in developing countries suffers from undernourishment. The challenge of feeding a global population, ...

Reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in educational institutions and government jobs have been a matter of contention in India over three decades. As recently as March 2020, an expert ...

A good number of his important articles, written over a period of more than 60 years, appeared in EPW. He was a great scholar in the classical political economy tradition with a variety of interests, ...

Indian state that “plans well but implements poorly” have hitherto drawn from a limited range of broad positions, ...

Shops and offices remain closed during the day, and, on the whole, the day is marked by a sombre reflectiveness—taking stock, mapping distances from the years before and those to come. In the evening, ...