The death of 70 children in a Gorakhpur hospital indicts us as a nation.
Off the Press
Web Exclusives
Editorials
The Economic Survey, Volume II is innovative but once again within a narrow reform agenda.
Commentary
The proposed National Commission for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes armed with constitutional status has been touted as a move to appease disgruntled dominant peasant castes in various states and in lieu of the 2019 polls.
Special Articles
Recent literature in New Institutional Economics has sought to study the link between colonialism and global inequalities.
Columns
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, introduced ostensibly to provide a legal framework for surrogacy in India, is a regressive legislation that seeks to control women’s bodies and reinforces heteronormative notions of what a family is.
Letters
While speaking at the Jharkhand Conclave 2025, organised by Prabhat Khabar on 13 August 2017 in Ranchi, economist and social activist Jean Drèze was heckled and shouted at by sitting ministers of the Jharkhand government, and was forced to discontinue his speech.
Book Reviews
State and Capital in Independent India: Institutions and Accumulation by Chirashree Das Gupta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016; pp xiv+315, ₹ 727.
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
The Forest Rights Act, 2006 has the potential to democratise forest governance by recognising community forest resource rights over an estimated 85.