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

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

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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.

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

The 2024 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 ...

Pyaasa stands as testament to the power of cinema to reflect the human condition and inspire social change. Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa, released in 1957, is “decidedly revelatory, deeply unnerving, ...

The musical sequences in Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey are narratively significant and cater to the film’s reconfiguration of gendered subjectivities. Film songs are central to India’s popular culture and ...

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Separate to rural–urban migration, vertical migration is undertaken by those who live in the most mountainous parts of India—down in autumn and up in spring. I turned from the splashes of gold-blue ...

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 ...