This article, makes a case for the desirability of a sui generis sectoral legislation (as opposed to extending existing ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

India’s labour market today is marked by a mix of progress and precarity, a combination that makes interpretation difficult and policy action urgent. On the surface, the country is undergoing a ...

It is not just one party that has completed 100 years of its existence, but the entire communist movement. Of course, the formation of the CPI is not reducible to a single moment, and it was indeed a ...

Yet, despite the critical need for organs, the rate of deceased donations in India remains strikingly low at less than one per million population (Table 1), which is far below countries like ...

In 2023, the global female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) was 49%, compared to 73% for men, creating a gender gap of 25 percentage points. This gap is not uniform and varies by region. While ...

Lavender, an AI-enabled database, assigns risk scores to Gazans based on patterns in their personal data (for example, communication and social connections) to identify “suspected Hamas or Islamic ...

As Irfan Ahmad (2023) reminds us, the systematic delegitimisation of Muslim ways of being is not a recent phenomenon but one rooted in the very project of Indian nation state formation, sustained ...

Prisons are primarily intended for convicts. However, in India, approximately 70% of prisoners are undertrial detainees (NCRB 2020), that is, individuals held in custody by judicial order while ...

Recent rounds&nbspRecent rounds of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of India report a sharp increase in both the labour force participation rate (LFPR) and the worker population ratio (WPR).

However, with the proverbial hindsight, given the struc­tural and ideological transformations in the US over the past few decades, the victory of Mamdani, providing as it does a ray of hope in ...