Discussion Maps

Academic debates are curated from the pages of EPW, to build a repository for specialists and non-specialists. Readers will gain fresh insight on topics and see how current debates have evolved over time. This project ensures that academic debates are made accessible and stay relevant in the public domain.
India’s first international queer film festival was held in Mumbai in 2003, followed by its second edition in 2004. The festival was called Larzish, tremors of a revolution: An International Film...
  • MARY E JOHN, 2005
  • ANUPAMA RAO, 2005
  • RINCHIN, 2005
  • ROHINI HENSMAN, 2005
  • The Dialogue Continues...
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In a provocative article published in mid-2009, Ramchandra Guha argued that, while modern Indian thinkers were intellectually...
  • RAMACHANDRA GUHA, 2009
  • SUDHANVA DESHPANDE, 2009
  • YOGENDRA YADAV, 2009
  • SUDHANVA DESHPANDE, 2009
  • YOGENDRA YADAV, 2009
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. Language is a complex human phenomenon that provides us with the agency to derive meaning from our human experiences with ourselves...
  • Ramaswamy R Iyer, 2013
  • Jobin Mathew Kanjirakkat, 2014
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   The first global poverty estimates generated by the World Bank in 1990 employed a poverty line of $1.08 per day anywhere in the...
  • Editorial, 2008
  • Martin Ravallion, 2008
  • S Subramanian, 2009
  The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   India’s potential as a science and technology powerhouse has been widely recognised. However, Meera Nanda argues in her paper...
  • MEERA NANDA, 2006
  • N R SETH, 2006
  • RANJIT SAU, 2006
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In the aftermath of Narendra Modi’s 2019 victory Dipankar Gupta, in an article titled “Caste and Electoral Outcomes: Misreading...
  • DIPANKAR GUPTA, 2019
  • VISHESH PRATAP GURJAR, 2019
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   The age-old debate between the subjective methods and objective methods of doing research in natural as well as social sciences,...
  • Abdur Rahman Momin, 1972
  • Rustom Engineer, 1972
  • Abdur Rahman Momin, 1972
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   Nupur Kataria’s Special Article...
  • Nupur Kataria, 2021
  • Simantini Mukhopadhyay, 2022
  The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In a special article in the 26 June 2021 issue of EPW, Tirthankar Roy argues that famine studies in India have been too...
  • TIRTHANKAR ROY, 2021
  • VISHAL SINGH DEO, 2022
  The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   The articles that make up this discussion map are a response to efforts to carve out a "Hindutva historiography" that, in the...
  • RAJAN GURUKKAL, 2014
  • ROMILA THAPAR, 2015
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. During the controversy involving the hijab in educational institutions of Karnataka in February 2022, two short articles—one, From...
  • Gopal Guru, 2022
  • Sundar Sarukkai, 2022
  • Muzaffar Ali, 2022
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. The phrase "the third world," now considered derogatory, emerged during the Cold War in reference to countries that were unaligned...
  • Aswini K Ray, 2012
  • Priya Naik, 2012
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In the study of untouchability, the concepts of purity, impurity and pollution are crucial for understanding the practice of...
  • Sundar Sarukkai, 2009
  • Gopal Guru, 2009
  • Balmurli Natrajan, 2009
  The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   The practice of witch-hunting — the persecution, often until death, of women accused of being witches — has persisted in India...
  • SHASHANK SINHA, 2007
  • DAYA VARMA, 2007
  • ATA MALLICK, 2008
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. Historically, language has played an important role in the formation of nation states. While selecting an official language plays an...
  • RALPH RUSSELL,1999
  • SYED SHAHABUDDIN, 1999
  • ALI IMRAN ZAIDI, 1999
  • RALPH RUSSEL,1999
  • M N VENKATACHALIAH, 1999
  • SALMAN KIHURSHID, 2000
  The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   India has been witnessing a trend where dissent is being met with charges of sedition. What has been the response of the Indian...
  • NILANJAN DUTTA, 1987
  • A READER, 1987
  • SAUMEN GUHA, 1988
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In 1989, Biswamoy Pati published a paper in EPW, which outlines the way the peasants and tribals figured in the Oriya literature of...
  • BISWAMOY PATI, 1989
  • RABI SHANKAR MISHRA, 1990
  • BISWAMOY PATI, 1990
  • RABI SHANKAR MISHRA AND JATINDRA KUMAR NAYAK, 1991
  • BISWAMOY PATI, 1991
  • RABI SHANKAR MISHRA AND JATINDRA KUMAR NAYAK, 1991
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. A call attention motion on dance bars in the Maharashtra legislative assembly on 31 March 2005 culminated with a ban on dance bars...
  • MAYA PANDIT, 2013
  • SAMEENA DALWAI, 2013
  • NALINI RAJAN, 2007
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In October 2002, the Tamil Nadu assembly promulgated an...
  • M V NADKARNI, 2003
  • M V NADKARNI, 2003
  • GAIL OMVEDT, 2003
  • M V NADKARNI, 2004
  • GAIL OMVEDT, 2004
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In 2006, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government proposed a 27% reservation of seats for Other Backward Classes (...
  • SATISH DESHPANDE, YOGENDRA YADAV, 2006
  • JAYATI GHOSH, 2006
  • SUKHADEO THORAT, 2006
  • SATISH DESHPANDE, 2006
  • ASHWINI DESHPANDE, 2006
  • KANCHA ILAIAH, 2006
  • SUSIE THARU ET AL, 2007
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In 1968, at a seminar hosted by All India Radio, three papers criticising the communal approach to Indian history, written by Romila...
  • SUDHIR CHANDRA, 1969
  • ROMILA THAPAR, HARBANS MUKHIA AND BIPAN CHANDRA, 1970
  • SUDHIR CHANDRA, 1970
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In a 1996 discussion on gay rights in India, an article written by H Srikanth as a response to Vimal Balasubrahmanyan’s piece on the...
  • VIMAL B, 1996
  • H SRIKANTH, 1996
  • SHARMILA REGE, 1996
  • PULAPRE BALAKRISHNAN, 1996
  • A SUNEETHA, 1996
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In 2003, Anirudh Krishna et al published two papers in EPW on the characteristics of household poverty in southern...
  • KRISHNA ET AL, 2004
  • C S MURTY, 2004
  • ANIRUDH KRISHNA, 2004
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   A year before India’s most recent national census of 2011, public debates ensued about whether caste should be enumerated, and if...
  • EDITORIAL, 2010
  • MARY E JOHN AND SATISH DESHPANDE, 2010
  • SONALDE DESAI, 2010
  • R B BHAGAT, 2010
  • V K NATRAJ, 2010
  • RATNA M SUDARSHAN, 2010
  • EDITORIAL, 2010
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In 2007, the...
  • ANAND TELTUMBDE, 2007
  • CHITTIBABU PADAVALA, 2007
  • C K VISHWANATH, 2007
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   For Gopal Guru, universities are not merely institutions that exist within a physical structure but sites that cultivate and...
  • GOPAL GURU, 2020
  • SWATAHSIDDHA SARKAR, 2020
  • VENKATARAMAN GANESH, 2020
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In May 2012, several lawmakers raised the issue of a 1949 cartoon by Shankar Pillai in Parliament that allegedly...
  • MANJIT SINGH, 2012
  • EDITORIAL, 2012
  • HARISH WANKHEDE, 2012
  • S M DAHIWALE, 2012
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In 1992, the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act was...
  • MINA SWAMINATHAN, 1993
  • ARUN GUPTA, JON E ROHDE, 1993
  • MINA SWAMINATHAN, 1993
  • RAMA NARAYANAN, 1993
  • SHANTI GHOSH, 1994
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   Gopal Guru, in his 1991 article, writes that Hindu communal forces are attempting to “Hinduise” Ambedkar and assimilate Dalits...
  • GOPAL GURU, 1991
  • S H DESHPANDE, 1991
  • DHAMMACHARI LOKAMITRA, 1991
  • GOPAL GURU, 1991
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   Lata Mangeshkar, as Sanjay Srivastava, Ashwini Deshpande, and Lakshmi Subramanian agree, is India’s most famous playback singer....
  • SANJAY SRIVASTAVA, 2004
  • ASHWINI DESHPANDE, 2004
  • LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN, 2005
  • ASHWINI DESHPANDE, 2005
  • SANJAY SRIVASTAVA, 2005
  • ASHWINI DESHPANDE, 2005
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of the EPW.   In her 2017 article, Prabha Kotiswaran analyses the various reforms in the law following the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh...
  • PRABHA KOTISWARAN, 2017
  • RATNA APPNENDER, 2017
  • PRABHA KOTISWARAN, 2017
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In 2002, Sharmila Rege documented the political struggles between two “caste-based forms of cultural labour,” Lavani and Powada....
  • SHARMILA REGE, 2002
  • MANGESH KULKARNI, 2002
  • SHARMILA REGE, 2002
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. 2021 marks two decades since the release of Lagaan, a sports-musical film set in pre-independence India. Boria Majumdar reads Lagaan...
  • BORIA MAJUMDAR, 2001
  • NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN, 2001
  • BORIA MAJUMDAR, 2002
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In their 2019 paper, “Burden of Child Malnutrition in India,” Akshay Swaminathan et al analysed population data at the level of...
  • SWAMINATHAN ET AL, 2019
  • SRINIVAS GOLI, 2019
  • SWAMINATHAN ET AL, 2019
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. R Vijay, in his 2012 article, provides evidence for the rise of a new “class” in rural India—non-cultivating “peasant” households (...
  • R VIJAY, 2012
  • BHIM REDDY AND ABHISHEK SHAW, 2012
  • R VIJAY, 2012
  • BHIM REDDY AND ABHISHEK SHAW, 2013
  The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   On 21 November 2020, one person...
  • ROLUAHPUIA 2018
  • SHYAMAL BIKASH CHAKMA AND SURAJ GOGOI 2018
  • ROLUAHPUIA 2019
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In her 1990 article, “Mother-Politics,” C S Lakshmi examines the concept of the “mother” in the context of Tamil culture and...
  • C S LAKSHMI, 1990
  • V GEETHA, 1991
  • M S S PANDIAN, ANANDHI S, A R VENKATACHALAPATHY, 1991
  • C S LAKSHMI, 1991
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW. In 2014, the National Sample Survey Office released a preliminary report on the state of healthcare in India. In their 2015 article...
  • T SUNDARARAMAN AND V R MURALEEDHARAN 2015
  • ALOK KUMAR, KHEYA MELO FURTADO, NISHANT JAIN, AND SUNIL NANDRAJ, 2015
  • T SUNDARARAMAN, V R MURALEEDHARAN AND INDRANIL MUKHOPADHYAY, 2016
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW. How did the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) succeed during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Assam despite widespread protests against...
  • DEEPANKAR BASU AND DEBARSHI DAS 2019
  • DHRUBA PRATIM SHARMA AND VIKAS TRIPATHI 2019
  • AKHIL RANJAN DUTTA 2019
  • DEEPANKAR BASU AND DEBARSHI DAS 2020
  • AKHIL RANJAN DUTTA 2020
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   On 28 January 2010, University of Delhi’s Department of Sociology (DOS)...
  • CLAUDE ALVARES 20111
  • K RAMAKRISHNA RAO 2011
  • GEORGE THOMAS 2011
  • ANIRUDH DESHPANDE 2011
  • GEORGE VARGHESE K 2011
  • CLAUDE ALVARES 2011
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In 1978, clinics in India started offering amniocentesis to detect “foetal genetic abnormalities.” According to Patricia Jeffery,...
  • PRANAB BARDHAN 1982
  • VIMAL BALASUBRAMANYAN 1982
  • DHARMA KUMAR 1983a
  • LEELA DUBEY 1983a
  • VIMAL BALASUBRAMANYAN 1983
  • L S VISHWANATH 1983
  • ROGER JEFFERY AND PATRICIA JEFFERY 1983
  • DHARMA KUMAR 1983b
  • LEELA DUBEY 1983b
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In 2013, Jaipur Police filed a first information report (FIR) against Ashis Nandy under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled...
  • GOPAL GURU 2013
  • DILIP M MENON 2013
  • K V CYBIL 2013
  • ARVIND KUMAR AND SRITI GANGULY 2014
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of the EPW.   Will a Marxist approach to politics today result in a just democracy?  Murzban Jal, in his 2011 article, calls for rethinking...
  • MURZBAN JAL, 2011
  • ARUN K PATNAIK, 2011
  • MURZBAN JAL, 2012
  • ARUN K PATNAIK, 2012
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   In 2011, Markar Melkonian wrote that Western capitalist nations present three broad arguments to justify the collapse of the...
  • MARKAR MELKONIAN 2011
  • PARESH CHATTOPADHYAY 2011
  • CEM SOMEL 2011
  • MARKAR MELKONIAN 2012
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   In his 2011 article, Montek Singh Ahluwalia reviewed the health of the Indian economy and evaluated the effectiveness of the...
  • MONTEK S AHLUWALIA 2011
  • S P SHUKLA, 2011
  • M A OOMMEN, 2011
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   With the advent of the green revolution in the mid-1960s, agriculture in India became increasingly industrialised and capital-...
  • SHRUTI BHOGAL AND SUKHPAL SINGH 2015
  • SUKHPAL SINGH 2016
  • SHRUTI BHOGAL AND SUKHPAL SINGH 2016
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.     Akshay Mathur’s 2013 article argues that global mechanisms to calculate crude oil prices, especially the Brent benchmark, need...
  • AKSHAY MATHUR, 2013
  • ADRIAN BINKS, 2013
  • AKSHAY MATHUR, 2014
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In her 2006 article, Rita Kothari investigates the role of the Arya Samaj, an institution for social “reform,” and argues that it...
  • RITA KOTHARI, 2006
  • ANAND CHANDAVARKAR, 2006
  • RITA KOTHARI, 2006
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   The Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in 2014 was premised on an anti-corruption development narrative, a key feature of which was...
  • DEV KAR, 2011
  • ARUN KUMAR, 2012
  • DEV KAR, 2012
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   M K Gandhi’s approach to issues of caste-based exploitation and subordination has been critiqued and scrutinised by theorists and...
  • SUHAS PALSHIKAR, 1996
  • ANUPAMA RAO, 1996
  • SUHAS PALSHIKAR, 1997
  • ANUPAMA RAO, 1997
How did the Emergency shape India’s current political climate? Arvind Rajagopal’s 2019 article reviews Gyan Prakash’s book Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point, and...
  • ARVIND RAJAGOPAL, 2019
  • GYAN PRAKASH, 2019
  • ARVIND RAJAGOPAL, 2019
A recent report in the Indian Express found that in...
  • SAMEER MOHITE, 2014
  • DISHA NAWANI, 2014
  • SAMEER MOHITE, 2015
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   In 2016, a study by the National Institute of...
  • BHARGAVI V DAVAR 2012
  • VIKRAM PATEL 2013
  • S PARASURAMAN AND VANDANA GOPIKUMAR, 2012
On 1 December, the price of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder...
  • LAHOTI ET AL, 2012
  • D C PATRA, 2013
  • LAHOTI ET AL, 2013
In 2019, EPW reviewed over 100 books. Read excerpts from 19 reviews that left an exceptional mark on our editors. EPW publishes two reviews of books written by established and emerging scholars and...
  • ECONOMICS AND POLICY
  • HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY
  • POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY
  • ECOLOGY AND THE STATE
  • LABOUR AND WOMEN
  • SOCIETY AND EQUALITY
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   The Indus Water Treaty (IWT),...
  • RAMASWAMY R IYER, 2010
  • PAVAN NAIR, 2010
  • MAJED AKHTER, 2010
  • RAMASWAMY R IYER, 2010
There is a long-standing and contentious debate on whether the benefits created by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) outweigh the costs. Currently, in India, the use of GM seeds that are not...
  • MEENA MENON, 2019
  • RAM KAUNDINYA, 2019
  • MEENA MENON, 2019
India’s first prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR),...
  • ASHWIN KUMAR AND M V RAMANA, 2011
  • S C CHETAL AND P CHELLAPANDI, 2011
  • M V RAMANA AND ASHWIN KUMAR, 2011
In 2010, the National Council of Applied Economic Research published a report titled “A Study of the Contribution of...
  • GOPAL K KADEKODI AND PRANAB MUKHOPADHYAY, 2011
  • RAHUL BASU 2012
  • R VENKATESAN 2012
  • RAHUL BASU 2012
Reading Gandhi today is more than just an engagement with his written word. For several decades, scholars across disciplines have attempted to arrive at a holistic understanding of Gandhi by...
  • 1949–59
  • 1960–69
  • 1970–79
  • 1980–89
  • 1990–99
  • 2000–09
  • 2010–19
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is...
  • Bishwanath Goldar, 2015
  • R NAGARAJ, 2015
  • Surajit Mazumdar, 2015
  • ASHIMA GOYAL, 2015
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   Kimberle Crenshaw theorised “intersectionality” as a concept in a 1989...
  • NIVEDITA MENON, 2015
  • MEENA GOPAL, 2015
  • MARY E JOHN, 2015
  • JENNIFER C NASH, 2015
Is patriarchy more concerned with sexual repression or social reproduction? In 2018, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavaat was met with protests upon its release for...
  • CAROL UPADHYA, 1998
  • MARY E JOHN, TEJASWINI NIRANJANA, 1998
  • CAROL UPADHYA, 1998
  • RATNA KAPUR, 1999
Incessant rainfall across India’s western coast during the 2019 monsoon has led to ...
  • MIHIR SHAH, 2013
  • C J PERRY, 2013
  • MIHIR SHAH, 2013
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   On May 10, 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth leader Priyanka Sharma was...
  • ISHITA MUKHOPADHYAY, 2012
  • SUBHASIS BANDYOPADHYAY, 2012
  • SUKUMAR MUKHOPADHYAY, 2012
  • SUJAY GHOSH, 2012
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   In 1976, Mohammad Yunus set up the...
  • DAVID HULME AND MATHILDE MAITROT, 2014
  • MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS
    P SATISH, 2015
  • MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS
    R SEENIVASAN, 2015
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   What does “doing sociology” in India today entail?  In 2016, Sujata Patel...
  • VIVEK KUMAR, 2016
  • K L SHARMA, 2016
  • VIVEK KUMAR, 2016
  • EDITORIAL, 2016
  • ARVIND KUMAR, 2016
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW     According to the...
  • ARVIND PANAGARIYA, 2013
  • STUART GILLESPIE, 2013
  • GARGI WABLE, 2013
  • DIANE COFFEY ET AL
  • RAKESH LODHA, YOGESH JAIN, C SATHYAMALA, 2013
  • GUPTA ET AL, 2013
  • SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN, ROHINI PANDE, 2013
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   Rahul Pandita’s memoir, Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, recounts the author’s experience of having...
  • ANURADHA BHASIN JAMWAL, 2013
  • RAHUL PANDITA, 2013
  • SUALEH KEEN, 2013
  • BASHIR MANZAR, 2013
  • GOWHAR GEELANI, 2013
  • SADAF MUNSHI, 2013
The contribution of the livestock sector to India’s agricultural gross domestic product has been increasing since the 1970s. Dairying accounts for more than two-thirds of the value of total livestock...
  • NILABJA GHOSH, AMARNATH TRIPATHI, M RAJESHWOR, AND ROOPAL SINGH, 2017
  • M DINESH KUMAR AND O P SINGH, 2017
  • NILABJA GHOSH, 2019
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   Is the left still relevant among the masses? Prabhat Patnaik in his 2011 article “The Left in Decline” introduces the term “...
  • PRABHAT PATNAIK, 2011
  • HIREN GOHAIN, 2011
  • KRIPA SHANKAR, 2011
  • DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA, 2011
  • ARUP BAISYA, 2011
  • SIDDHARTHA LAHIRI, 2011
  • PRABHAT PATNAIK, 2012
The Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Madhya Pradesh was set up by the state government to universalise primary education and ensure access to it for the marginalised sections of the society. R...
  • R GOPALAKRISHNAN AND AMITA SHARMA, 1998
  • RAHUL, 1999
  • R GOPALAKRISHNAN AND AMITA SHARMA,1999
  • VINOD VYASULU, 1999
  • P D KHERA, 1999
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.     Can there be a “factual” discussion of Bangladesh’s Liberation War?   Naeem Mohaiemen’s article, “Flying Blind: Waiting for a...
  • NAEEM MOHAIEMEN, 2011
  • SARMILA BOSE, 2011
  • NAEEM MOHAIEMEN, 2011
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s 2014 electoral campaign was built around the Gujarat “model” of development—...
  • R NAGARAJ AND SHRUTI PANDEY, 2013
  • MAITREESH GHATAK AND SANCHARI ROY, 2014
  • MAITREESH GHATAK ET AL, 2014
  • SUKUMAR MUKHOPADHYAY, 2013
  • R NAGARAJ AND SHRUTI PANDEY, 2014
  • RAVINDRA H DHOLAKIA, 2014
  • R NAGARAJ, 2014
  • SUGATA MARJIT, 2014
  • MAITREESH GHATAK ET AL, 2014
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   How strong is India’s democratic order? Bernard D’Mello’s 2013 article “'The Near and the Far': Why Is India’s Liberal–Political...
  • BERNARD D’MELLO, 2013
  • C P BHAMBRI, 2013
  • BERNARD D’MELLO, 2013
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   Can solar irrigation pumps give farmers income security? The Solar Power as a Remunerative Crop (SPaRC) project, implemented in...
  • SHAH ET AL, 2017
  • SAHASRANAMAN ET AL, 2018
  • VERMA ET AL, 2019
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   The annual Pratham–Annual Status of Education Reports (ASER) survey repeatedly points to learning deficiencies prevalent in...
  • ROHINI SAHNI AND V KALYAN SHANKAR, 2015
  • RAJESH MISHRA AND SUPRIYA SINGH, 2015
  • HARI NAIR, 2016
  • SAYANTAN MANDAL, 2016
  • JAYANTI DUTTA, 2016
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.     Can music resolve conflict?   Tejaswini Niranjana’s 2013 article examines the social role of Hindustani music in Karnataka’s...
  • TEJASWINI NIRANJANA, 2013
  • VIJAYAKUMAR M BORATTI, 2013
  • SHASHIKANTHA KOUDUR, 2013
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   Did Gandhi refuse to denounce the caste system? "The Doctor and the Saint"—written by Arundhati Roy as an introduction to B R...
  • RAJMOHAN GANDHI, 2015
  • ARUNDHATI ROY, 2015
  • NANDINI OZA, 2015
  • RAJMOHAN GANDHI, 2015
  The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW. Over 40 lakh people have been excluded from Assam’s National register of Citizens (NRC) published in July 2018. The Assam...
  • HIREN GOHAIN, FEBRUARY 1980
  • SANJIB KUMAR BARUAH, MARCH 1980
  • HIREN GOHAIN, APRIL 1980
  • SANJIB KUMAR BARUAH, MAY 1980
  • TILOTTOMA MISRA, AUGUST 1980
  • K M SHARMA, AUGUST 1980
  • HIREN GOHAIN, AUGUST 1980
  • AMALENDU GUHA, OCTOBER 1980
  • LILY BARA, DECEMBER 1980
  • UDAYON MISRA, FEBRUARY 1981
  • HIREN GOHAIN, FEBRUARY 1981
  • GAIL OMVEDT, MARCH 1981
  • SANJIB KUMAR BARUAH, APRIL 1981
  • AMALENDU GUHA, APRIL 1981
  • HIREN GOHAIN , MAY 1981
  • AMALENDU GUHA, MAY 1981
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.     What effect did colonial rule have on the Indian economy?   Is economic modernity a justifiable excuse for nearly 200 years of...
  • TIRTHANKAR ROY, 2015
  • ARINDAM BANERJEE, CHIRASHREE DAS GUPTA AND SURAJIT MAZUMDAR, 2015
  • TIRTHANKAR ROY, 2015
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of E​PW.   How much should India contribute to mitigating climate change?   The Paris Agreement signed by the Conference of Parties (CoP)...
  • KIRIT S PARIKH AND JYOTI K PARIKH, 2016
  • NAVROZ K DUBASH AND RADHIKA KHOSLA, 2016
  • KIRIT S PARIKH AND JYOTI K PARIKH, 2017
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of EPW.   Should reservation in education and employment exclude the prosperous among the backward classes?     On 26 September 2018, the...
  • S SUBRAMANIAN, 2006
  • K SUNDARAM, 2007
  • K RAVI SRINIVAS, 2007
  • S SUBRAMANIAN, 2007
The Discussion Map charts important debates from the pages of the EPW.    Is there an effective blueprint to conserve tiger habitats?  In Ajay Dubey v National Tiger Conservation Authority (2012),...
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  • S V Srinivas, 1994
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