Given the high dependency of India on coal to power its growth, India suffers from an energy paradox. This article highlights the challenges associated with increasing the share of renewables and ...

Algorithms are the new managers that evaluate workers through customer-generated five-star ratings by platforms. This paper studies rating systems used by ride-hailing companies, such as Uber and Ola.

The musical sequences in Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey are narratively significant and cater to the film’s reconfiguration of gendered subjectivities.

Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa, released in 1957, is “decidedly revelatory, deeply unnerving, characteristically melancholy, purposefully sardonic” (Chakraborty 2022). This article attempts to examine the process ...

Since the passage of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, there have been several judicial deliberations on whether this law can be broadly ...

Jharkhand assembly has completely reversed the Lok Sabha outcome in the state.It underscored a victory of effective grassroots-level electoral design and well-knit coalition that unified varied ...

The slowdown in migration in the post-pandemic period does not bode well for growth.

It is well known that B R Ambedkar had great respect for John Dewey, a prominent American pragmatist philosopher and his sometime teacher at Columbia University. Yet no one knows much about what ...

The quest for lasting peace, justice, and freedom continues till the structures of occupation and settler colonialism are dismantled.

India’s death registration system faces significant challenges, including regional disparities, gender inequities, and incomplete data capture. These gaps, exacerbated during COVID-19, undermine ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

The Slum Rehabilitation Authority in Mumbai is doing more harm than good, yet there is talk of adopting the “sra model” in other states as well. An alternative is to take slum lands and parts of other ...