Although forest cover has increased, net ecological benefits have not improved.

The large variations in welfare transfers across states further limit the offered entitlements.

Bill, 2024, has led to a debate and deliberation across the sociopolitical spectrum. There are claims and counterclaims ...

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 ...

Literacy is fundamental to many state-sponsored interventions in less developed countries because of its pervasive influence on economically relevant variables, such as productivity, health 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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...