There is documentary evidence of the degeneration of the scientific basis of dealing with tubercul0sis as a public health problem in India. The outstanding research on TB in the past must not be...
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"Victory for Identity Politics, Not Hindutva in Assam" by Udayon Misra (EPW, 28 May 2016) echoes the general tenor of remarks on the striking election results in the local press and other media. As...
This is a rejoinder to "Class Struggle, the Maoists and the Indigenous Question in Nepal and India" by Alpa Shah and Feyzi Ismail (EPW, 29 August 2015).
Countering the criticism of the organisation Scholars for People in "What Is at Stake in Rewriting California Textbooks" (EPW, 16 July 2016), the author explains that the mandate of the organisation...
Responding to the critique of their article on the commission agent system in Punjab, the authors highlight the perils of private solutions to agrarian problems. They propose an enhanced role of the...
The articles ("What Does an MA Know?" (EPW, 1 August 2015), "Continuum of Ignorance inIndian Universities" (EPW, 28 November 2015) and "Where Teachers Learn" (EPW, 30 April 2016) unfold only some...
“Are Trade Unions Relevant in the Indian Banking Sector?” by Bino Paul G D and Pooja Gupta Mahurkar (EPW, 16 April 2016) contains surmises and generalisations without verifiable supporting data,...
A reply to "Paris Agreement: Differentiation without Historical Responsibility?" by Kirit S Parikh and Jyoti K Parikh (EPW, 9 April 2016), which deepens the discussion on the key concepts of co-...
Atul Deulgaonkar and Anjali Joshi have described the drought exp- erienced in Marathwada in their article “Agriculture Is Injurious to Health” (EPW, 7 May 2016). As the impacts of drought, they have...
A critique of Tushaan Shah, G Mishra, P Kela, P Chinnasamy's "Har Khet Ko Pani? Madhya Pradesh's Irrigation Reform as a Model," (Economic & Political Weekly, 6 February 2016).
In "Continuum of Ignorance in Indian Universities" (EPW, 28 November 2015) Rajesh Misra and Supriya Singh raise a number of critical questions. Their article, a response to V Kalyan Shankar and...
In "Communal Riots in Gujarat: Examining State Power and Production of Marginality in the Attempt to Constitute the Past" (EPW, 19 December 2015) Pooja Bakshi seems to have had access to the raw data...
A critique of "Commission Agent System: Significance in Contemporary Agricultural Economy of Punjab" by Sukhpal Singh and Shruti Bhogal (EPW, 7 November 2015).
It would be an exaggeration to say that the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 has "failed most spectacularly." There have been many shortcomings, but there have been positive...
