Amid multiple resettlement attempts, driven by increased private investment and rising land values, residents of a slum in Visakhapatnam have successfully defended their rights to their houses and the ...

The processes described as ‘“Informality from Above” and “Informality from Below” have been co-constitutive of the development of Cyberabad, and that while the former is most visible, the latter has ...

The centrality of an artisan’s household within the geography of traditional bangle-making is analysed by spatially locating it within the networks of production in the context of the Firozabad ...

The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of contemporary affairs every week. EPW is one of the few publications that keep alive the spirit of intellectual inquiry in ...

The local governments’ financial sustenance crucially relies on transfers from the union finance commission, governed by Article 280(3)(bb) and (c) of the Indian Constitution, introduced in ...

Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and its platform capitalism float on free speech absolutism that fans Islamophobia. His forays into European politics push a sinister far-right agenda. Musk—born in ...

A Demographic, Social and Economic Analysis by S Irudaya Rajan, Bernard D’Sami, Samuel Asir Raj, and P Sivakumar, Orient BlackSwan, 2021; pp 336, `1,465.

A Short Biography of Srinagar by Sadaf Wani, New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2024; pp 180, `399.

Every few years, inclusive finance goes through a crisis with issues of excessive lending, coercive recovery practices, and high interest rates. The article explains the crisis by looking at product ...

Three environmental laws passed by the Indian Parliament in 2023 have diluted the safeguards for forests, biodiversity, and marine ecosystems. These laws have effectively deregulated 27.6% of India’s ...

The politics of selling the Kumbh has overtaken the science of crowd management, causing tragedies.

T h e rankings of fiscal health of the states by the Niti Aayog for 2022–23, the ninth in the series, once again bring out their sharp disparities and diverging trends. A major ...