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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

At the individual level, the motivation for investing in education is to enhance labour market opportunities, while at the ...

This unprecedented move disrupted the academic calendar and destabilised the hopes and imagined futures of millions of students. The cancellation of this key “rite of passage” introduced widespread ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If at certain instances, markers of modernity arose out of the very specific conditions in Kerala, at other times they were ...

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 ...