Marking a historic moment in the global struggle against caste injustice, recent legislations in Seattle and California explicitly ban caste discrimination. The legal category of caste in these...
Commentary
Commentary
The experiences and challenges in health service delivery, faced by the newly created cadre known as mid-level healthcare providers or community health officers, are explored through an empirical...
The delimitation exercise in Assam has not only redrawn the boundaries of the constituencies but also political fault lines of the state. Hailed by a section as a step to safeguard the rights of...
In financial year 2022–23, more than 5 crore workers were deleted from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act database—a 247% increase compared to the previous FY . Using a...
Industrial policy seems to be attempting a comeback to the centre stage of policy discussions. In a given milieu of global economic conditions, it offers opportunities for developing economies to...
The forest management and state-building efforts in the late 19th century are analysed by examining the failure of a state-run rubber plantation in Charduar, Assam. This plantation needs to be...
There exists almost no information on the dynamics of the economy on a quarterly or monthly basis at the state level. The use of high-frequency indicators opens the door for nowcasting the state...
Looking into the efficacy of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, a model for platform regulation is suggested for India. Ensuring a level playing field in the Indian digital markets could pose...
Instead of a fixed vertical share for the entire award period, an upward revision of vertical devolution to the states as and when there is an increase in cess and surcharges by the union government...
The key drivers of farmer producer organisations are analysed in terms of their outreach, operations and financials and derived common performance indicators that make them model institutions. The...
The proposal of having a single legislation for personal data protection and non-personal data governance in India is questioned. The foundational bases that justify both these regulatory frameworks...
The terrible impact of the Russia–Ukraine proxy war on the people of Ukraine and its decimation are of little concern to global elites. The war is increasing militarisation, cutting into human...
There is a case for compensation to victims of oral polio vaccine–induced polio disease on the lines of the United Kingdom government that announced compensation to patients who had contracted HIV or...
The ongoing hearings on marriage equality in the Supreme Court have not only raised some pertinent constitutional and human rights issues but also certain key questions, the answers to which will...
Highlighting the nexus between the tourism–carrying capacity and infrastructure development in the region, the instances of sinking and cracking of houses in Joshimath are shown to be a result of the...
