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A significant proportion of India’s population lacks access to decent housing, despite successive governments implementing housing affordability schemes. Why housing is expensive in India and what ...

This article examines in detail seven years of goods and services tax revenue performance. Our main findings are as follows. First, overall revenues have only now converged to pre-GST levels. Second, ...

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There is a fault line under Israel that promises to crack open into an all-out regional war in West Asia. That epicentre is Israel’s never-ending dual project of settler colonialism and expansionism.

Ti me Shelter (2022) by Georgi Gospodinov is the theatr e of the absurd in live action—funny and creepy, with ti me, memory and history as protagonists in the clinic of human li ...

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Kadvi Hawa explores the intricate relationship between climate change and poverty in an Indian setting through its focus on farmer suicides.

Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India by Jan Breman, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2023; pp 220, ₹950. The EPW produces independent and ...

Dhak Dhak uses the trope of a motorcycle road trip to discuss several societal and emotional barriers women ought to overcome to forge their own paths and blossom into their authentic selves.

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 ...

A Writer’s Journey through Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh, New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2024; pp 398, $32.69.