Recent rounds&nbspRecent rounds of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of India report a sharp increase in both the labour force participation rate (LFPR) and the worker population ratio (WPR).

Supply chain disruptions and a destabilised multilateral trading order have long-term implications for a large developing country like India. In response, India is currently in the process of further ...

In 2023, the global female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) was 49%, compared to 73% for men, creating a gender gap of 25 percentage points. This gap is not uniform and varies by region. While ...

The Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) demonstrates another dimension of this process, where the peripheral salt-pan lands of Bhandup and Mulund are used for the relocation of Dharavi residents.

This paper proceeds by asking whether gross domestic product (GDP) growth is indeed the best way to assess the performance of an economy. After discussing the alternatives to the “commodity fetishism” ...

Lavender, an AI-enabled database, assigns risk scores to Gazans based on patterns in their personal data (for example, communication and social connections) to identify “suspected Hamas or Islamic ...

Prisons are primarily intended for convicts. However, in India, approximately 70% of prisoners are undertrial detainees (NCRB 2020), that is, individuals held in custody by judicial order while ...

Yet, despite the critical need for organs, the rate of deceased donations in India remains strikingly low at less than one per million population (Table 1), which is far below countries like ...

India’s labour market today is marked by a mix of progress and precarity, a combination that makes interpretation difficult and policy action urgent. On the surface, the country is undergoing a ...

However, with the proverbial hindsight, given the struc­tural and ideological transformations in the US over the past few decades, the victory of Mamdani, providing as it does a ray of hope in ...

As Irfan Ahmad (2023) reminds us, the systematic delegitimisation of Muslim ways of being is not a recent phenomenon but one rooted in the very project of Indian nation state formation, sustained ...

It is not just one party that has completed 100 years of its existence, but the entire communist movement. Of course, the formation of the CPI is not reducible to a single moment, and it was indeed a ...