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 ...

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 ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

Infants are widely recognised as the future citizens of any nation, embodying hope and potential. Yet, the unfortunate reality persists that one of the primary deficiencies within a country’s public ...

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.” ...