Sixty-year-old Nanchan from Kuppam Colony was trampled by an elephant, while gathering forest produce near the Tamil Nadu border. The elder described the elephant as a “lost protector,” displaced by ...

However, the sector faces considerable challenges due to heightened price instability resulting from increased global market integration, which disproportionately affects smallholders (Rangachary 2006 ...

The Economic and Political Weekly invites articles from researchers and policy analysts for the second special issue on industrial transformation to be published towards the end of 2025/ early 2026.

For India, this presents a foundational strategic challenge. While the impulse to pursue a full-scale de-dollarisation—an active strategy to replace the dollar—is understandable, the wiser path is ...

At over 80 years old, she is known as Planthottachi—named for the jackfruit (plavu) tree that gave shade to her home. Her life is a living archive of resilience and loss. When I met her, she greeted ...

But women poets existed in the Urdu literary sphere, leading lives vibrant enough to be recorded in antho­logies. Farhat Hasan’s Voices in Verses: Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth ...

This was not entirely unexpected as consumer price inflation has been steadily falling from the previous peak of 6.2% in October 2024, a fall of close to 5 percentage points over the last nine months, ...

This paper studies the extent of teacher’s in-group bias in occupational expectations and grading on the basis of student’s caste and socio-economic status. The paper adopts an experimental approach ...

The splendid success story of the green revolution in Punjab not only helped the country achieve its much-needed food self-sufficiency but also put Punjab on a higher growth trajectory. With merely 1.

There is a lack of inclusive and equitable quality education in India. Due to socio-economic disparities and gender-based discrimination, children are struggling with basic literacy and numeracy ...

According to official figures, the estimated number of people who took a dip in the river at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, which concluded on 26 February, is 66 crore. The Uttar Pradesh government ...

In developing countries, rural households often rely on solid fuels for cooking, heating, and lighting, with women and children typically collecting these fuels from forests, their own land, and ...