Sachin established the Economic Weekly after independence both to inform India's new policymakers and intellectuals as to what was occurring in the economy and society and to influence government...
Economic Weekly: 60 Years Ago
This article was published in EPW on 9 January 1999, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Economic Weekly. Given the content, that article, titled "Fifty Years Ago", is reprinted...
Looking back, the creation and sustenance of the Economic Weekly, in the face of impossible odds is a stirring episode that more than challenges comparison with other founder-editor periodicals of...
Sachin, at that time, was the patriarch of the EW family of well-wishers, friends and amateurs (often anonymous contributors) and the intellectual integrity that one has come to associate with EpW...
It was because of his pragmatism that some thought Sachin's Economic Weekly did not reflect any social philosophy. But the discerning readers could notice the strong undercurrent of free and fearless...
With India's independence, new forces were unleashed; the period of negativism and imitativeness had come to an end. However, creativity in thinking was sadly missing. Sachin Chaudhuri's Economic...
On stimulating upcoming social scientists and commentators, ew succeeded famously. Apart from providing room in each issue for a section on special articles, Sachin Chaudhuri had a knack for...
