We need to genuinely devolve power to urban local bodies and financially empower them,  —NITI Aayog’s “Three Year Action Agenda 2017–18 to 2019–20: 59”Five finance commissions, beginning with the ...

We expect trouble when the rule-following poster girl is drawn towards the affable new boy, Srinivasan (Kesav Binoy Kiron). Trouble could, predictably, brew from close quarters—Mira’s mother, Anila ...

On the one hand, India has witnessed a consistent declining trend in female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) during the 1990s and in the first one and a half decades of the millennium (from 33.

In this context, Dalit memoirs have emerged as a powerful medium for self-assertion and the articulation of caste-based oppression, challenging Brahminical hegemony and amplifying silenced voices.

Caste endogamy serves as a key mechanism for sustaining caste hierarchies, conferring upper-caste women a high ritual purity status along with certain material benefits (Velaskar 2016). These ...

Credit growth should not run ahead of deposit growth by miles.The Indian banking sector witnes­sed an acceleration in credit, com­pared to deposits, in financial year (FY) 2023–24. The loan portfolio ...

Findings from the initial years of the new series of Periodic Labour Force Surveys (PLFS) presented a dismal job situation. However, in the post-COVID-19 period, the surveys have been reporting a much ...

India has also recognised the critical role higher education plays in realising the socio-economic goals and cultural and political aspirations of the people. India has set the goals of becoming a ...

They are going to assassinate literature. Slowly, steadily, almost politely. With budget reports instead of guns and bullets, with Excel sheets instead of execution orders, with number gimmicks ...

Often, while “on the road,” I have experienced a state of mind that philosophers and clinicians alike have called melancholy—generally described as “pensive sadness” or “prolonged depression.” ...

Its profound effects are particularly evident in coastal areas, where the convergence of rising sea levels, shifting weather ...

While India’s score improved slightly in the Global Hunger Report 2024, both the rate of improvement and the ranking among developing countries suggest a concerning situation of food and nutrition ...