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The quality of the increased state spending continues to deteriorate. The numbers clearly show that the expenditure in the state budgets has averaged 18.5% of the GDP in the first four years of the ...

EPW is grateful to Sharachchandra Lele and Geetanjoy Sahu, Guest Editors of this issue of the Review of Environment and Development. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and ...

The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023; pp xi + 448, `695.

Sixteen years after the Forest Rights Act, 2006, only three states have recognised a significant number of community forest resource rights, and only one of them (Maharashtra) has enabled their ...

Beyond Binaries: The World of India and China by Shastri Ramachandaran, New Delhi: Institute of Objective Studies, 2024; pp 309, ₹450. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and ...

The Supreme Court recently struck down several provisions of prison manuals as unconstitutional on the grounds that they perpetrated caste-based discrimination in Sukanya Shantha v Union of India and ...

Luxury consumption, so far seen as a problem of the global North, is now growing dramatically in India. We explore its complex dynamics, including definitions, drivers, impacts and responses. Luxury ...

Recent reports on capacity constraints faced by the state pollution control boards have revealed serious systemic issues—problematic board structure and composition, lack of competence in the boards’ ...

We imagine there is no private sector. It is easy if we try. The motivation is the hightailing of capital from the provision of decent work at a social wage in projects using technologies that are ...

Low-cost renewable energy available at scale has the potential to address, at least partially, the tension between development and environment. India has an opportunity to reimagine the electricity ...

Through their writing and speaking, M T Vasudevan Nair and Mammootty extended the horizons of Malayalam. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of contemporary ...