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.

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Women’s participation in the labour market is mediated by the gendered household dynamics of work and care. This is underscored by homeworking where women may choose to work from home because it ...

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 ...

The recent publication of the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) Report, “Comprehensive Modular Survey: Telecom, 2025” (CMS: T) based on the NSS 80th round conducted from January to March 2025, ...

In this context, Dalit memoirs have emerged as a powerful medium for self-assertion and the articulation of caste-based oppression, challenging Brahminical hegemony and amplifying silenced voices.

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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 ...

The extent to which the carbon border adjustment mechanism may induce enhanced decarbonisation on the big steel players would depend on how they are positioned and what strategy they adopt. However, ...

We expect trouble when the rule-following poster girl is drawn towards the affable new boy, Srinivasan (Kesav Binoy Kiron). Trouble could, predictably, brew from close quarters—Mira’s mother, Anila ...

Development, Neoliberalism, and Islamism in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh by Mustahid M Husain, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; pp xvii + 146, ¤117.69 (eBook). This ambitious work ...

Over the last few weeks, several instances of “mistaken deportation” of Indian citizens to Bangladesh have been reported and rightly caused an alarm. The pattern that seems to be emerging is arrests ...