As editor for 35 years (1969-2004), Krishna Raj gave EPW the reputation it now enjoys. On his 13th death anniversary, we reproduce the tribute published in EPW on 24 January 2004, a week after...
Glimpses from the Past
Sachin Chaudhuri was the founder–editor of EPW. Below, we reproduce a tribute that was published after his death in the 24 December 1966 issue.
On the lines of Sadat Hasan Manto's facetious letters to Uncle Sam written at the height of the cold war when Pakistan was being wooed by the US as an ally to fight communism, this letter was written...
In 2002, after disputes regarding the Tulbul Navigation Project and familiar media hype about whether the Indus water treaty should be cancelled, the late Ramaswamy R Iyer decided that it might “be...
This editorial appeared in EPW's first issue in August 20, 1966. Today marks 50 years of its publication.
This article, published in the 12 April 1980 issue of the Economic and Political Weekly, reports the invoking of the Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Act in the midst of the Assam...
This article, published in 1965, recounts the importance the Gulzarilal Nanda government gave to peripheral priorities like renaming roads whereas slum development or electricity breakdowns received...
The IITs, known for their excellence in teaching and research, have come under criticism for their casteist outlook, manifested recently in IIT Madras derecognising the Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle...
This article, published as a series on "Drug Prices and Patents" in the 3 April 1965 issue of The Economic Weekly , points out the reasons the stifling patrent regime encouraged by developed...
This article, published as a series on "Drug Prices and Patents" in the 3 April 1965 issue of The Economic Weekly , presents the industry point of view on drug prices and patents. We present this...
The last few weeks have witnessed a ban on the slaughter and possession of bulls, bullocks and calves, in addition to cows, in Maharashtra and then in Haryana. The BJP, in power in both these states...
Meera Kosambi (1939-2015) was a sociologist who wrote on various subjects ranging from feminist history to urban ecology. We re-publish a Special Article written by her, on her definitive and well-...
This article, published in the February 1965 issue of Economic Weekly, is an interesting take on technical assistance of Israel to tropical African countries - a few years before the 1967 war in...
From April to June 1961, a series of six articles by Rajni Kothari were published in The Economic Weekly. These articles titled "Form and Substance in Indian Politics" covered panchayat Raj,...
EPW brings you this two-part essay on India's Sri Lankan strategy by V R Krishna Iyer.
