In recent years, the Government of India has been trying to popularise nutri-cereal crops through various policy measures such as increasing the minimum support price and changing the name of coarse ...

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 ...

Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible by Akshaya Kumar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp 235, `1,495 (hardcover).

The absence of caste-level data has been a pressing issue in India, with the long-standing demand for a caste census emerging as a major political point in the 2024 general elections. This paper aims ...

This paper revisits Raj’s approach to scholarship. The primary focus is not to address the content of his key arguments and findings or to evaluate whether they have stood the test of time. Rather, ...

The crisis around the cinematic portrayal of desire in older adults is a result of the Family Planning Programme, which marked the prominence of a new sexual morality in Kerala. The EPW produces ...

Though the constitution bench judgment in S Azeez Basha v Union of India (1968), which held that the Aligarh Muslim University was not a “minority institution,” has been set aside, the Supreme Court ...

The definition of household adopted in National Sample Survey household surveys does not always serve well the intended purpose. The article examines its suitability for estimating the distribution of ...

Films like Srikanth can assist in countering the invisible or constructed characteristics of disability by portraying it as an ever-existing reality of our society. The EPW produces independent and ...

The release of the Hema Committee report is a historic moment that marks a major intervention in the formation of new discourses in the public sphere. Ideas and practices of normalisation and ...

Besides providing an opportunity for different political parties to test their ground, the assembly elections held after a gap of 10 years were important for the people of the state—as much for ...