The impact of precipitation-related natural disasters like floods and droughts on inflation expectations of consumers is examined. Using data from Reserve Bank of India’s inflation expectations survey ...

The book argues that the parliamentary Opposition is not merely an electoral and symbolic force but both democracy’s necessity and governance imperative. The book offers a fresh conceptual framework ...

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 ...

Greenfield expressways, high-speed rail corridors, industrial nodes, defence manufacturing clusters, and logistics hubs now traverse vast stretches of predominantly agrarian land. These projects are ...

Citizens’ right to property vis-à-vis the power of the state to acquire it has been a vexed legal issue since independence. Various legislative enactments and executive orders have sought to restrict ...

Individuals with better access to knowledge and digital tools are borrowing the disease labels, such as depression and anxiety to express their concerns, while many use vocabularies of suffering and ...

India has 91 cities among the 1,000 covered, the third-largest representation after China and the United States (US). Yet their average rank is 716, and even Delhi, the highest-ranked Indian city, ...

The principal Opposition party demands it, as do other political parties and civil society groups. That would be ideal—Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion, we know. But it is not so much the person ...

However, as of October 2025, India had conferred only 697 GI tags (IP India 2025), less than 7% of the target. Achieving 10,000 GIs by 2030 would require the registration of more than 1,860 products ...

This article focuses on the effect of climatic events on household beliefs about the macroeconomy. It examines the sensitivity of household inflation expectations1 in response to precipitation-related ...

This article examines the evolution of the “Kodak Girl” in post-independence India, focusing on the shifting imagination of ...

It is also a recognition of the wisdom of the belated policy push and investment being given to coal gasification. On the plus side, India does have an integrated national grid; yet its ability to ...