On the one hand, India has witnessed a consistent declining trend in female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) during the 1990s and in the first one and a half decades of the millennium (from 33.

The Information Technology Amendment Rules of 2023 grant the union government the authority to remove any online content pertaining to its business that it deems to be false or misleading. Under these ...

Imagine this Brahmanical, patriarchal social structure as a house Each element listed on the panel represents a part of this structure. Click on each word and build this house. You will understand how ...

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As if the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza that the International Court of Justice ruled a “plausibleAs if the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza that the International Court of Justice ruled a ...

Analysing the prospects of achieving $2 trillion worth of exports by 2030 based on India’s export performance from 2011–12 to 2020–21, the export value must grow at 13.23% per annum starting from 2021 ...

The socio-economic data along with caste figures may lead to revisiting material questions underlying caste–class inequality. Awanish Kumar writes: In his Untouchables or the Children of Indias Ghetto ...

This paper examines how social norms affect the gendered experience of men and women receiving direct benefit transfer payments and its impact at the household level using three criteria: physical ...

The beloved Gujarati families of Hindi television—the Sarabhais, the Parekhs, the Mehtas—seem to have aged into model citizens of New India.The beloved Gujarati families of Hindi television—the ...

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 ...

Political power, in a democracy functioning in a society defined by multiple diversities and inequalities, is like sand. The tighter one tries to hold it in a fist, it tends to slip away, and the ...