Reason empowers common citizens, but it is feared by the power that survives on unreason. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of contemporary affairs every week.
The retrospective application of the outbreak narrative enables a nuanced understanding of contagion amid the widespread mortality, fear, and panic that pandemics bring.
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Despite the Smart City Mission’s mobility-centric thrust, road accidents owing to traffic signal malfunctions are a commonplace occurrence in Indian cities. The EPW produces independent and ...
These reflections are prompted by the furore caused by the proposal of an inheritance tax and, independently, the questioning of the meaning of private property in India in April 2024. We suggest that ...
In a year mired by armed conflicts, genocide, and humanitarian crises, the world has egregiously backtracked on its shared commitment to the recognition and realisation of the universal right to food, ...
The recent Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson (henceforth, AJR). The Nobel committee noted that ...
Trade unions remain indispensable towards securing workers’ rights in global value chains. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of contemporary affairs every week.