Sexual abuse of children in schools has exposed the loopholes in child protection laws.
Off the Press
Web Exclusives and EPW Engage
Editorials
The ruling party’s neglect of the “rural” is proving to be fiscally and politically expensive.
Commentary
Employment growth in India slowed down drastically during the period 2012 to 2016, after a marginal improvement between March 2010 and March 2012, according to the latest available employment data collected by the Labour Bureau.
Special Articles
Compensatory afforestation is a dubious and controversial environmental “offset” that is adding to environmental damage instead of mitigating or compensating it.
Columns
In reading and understanding the Supreme Court’s judgment in K Puttaswamy v Union of India, the Supreme Court’s articulation of the right to privacy carries within it certain contradictions in thought and approach.
Letters
Contrary to Ratna Appnender’s claims, there is no confusion of fact or law in my article.
Book Reviews
The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000 by Cynthia Talbot, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; pp 316, $99.
Review Issues
Why a Review of Environment and Development? The Review of Environment and Development has been imagined to address social, political and economic issues related to environment and ecosystems, at all scales from local to global.
Special Issues
Marx’s Capital (three volumes) offers a unified framework to make sense of some of the most troubling issues facing humanity today, in particular, rising economic inequality, deepening economic instability, and growing unsustainability of human–nature interactions, signifying a looming planetary crisis.