The social ecological model provides a framework for understanding the complex interplay of individual, community, and sociopolitical factors influencing health outcomes. In a systematic review of 115 ...

It set the following as the criteria for the status of a classical language: (i) high antiquity of its early texts/recorded history over a thousand years; (ii) a body of ancient literature/texts, ...

Over the years, the evisceration of the parliamentary essence by turning Nelson’s eye to its corroding effectiveness, scrutinising ability and inability to fix accountability has become a dominating ...

Negotiations that had remained stalled for nearly two decades have been revived and concluded at a moment when the global economic order is visibly fragmenting. Talks on a comprehensive FTA, initiated ...

While it sustained average gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates of above 6% since the 1990s, this period has also seen an unprecedented rise in income and wealth inequalities. At the same time, ...

As a PhD scholar investigating savarna epistemology—not in my doctoral research but for my personal interest—I found myself feeling both too close and too distant from the very subject that Kisana ...

Access to safe drinking water at home is a problem for many households in rural India, like some other countries in South Asia and Africa. In the absence of a safe water supply at home, people often ...

India remains far from achieving the goal of “Pension for All.” As of May 2024, only about 5% of the country’s population was covered by pension schemes (Mohanty 2024). At the same time, the pension ...

In the last two decades, high-fee private schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), and the International ...

This article is a revised version of the First Professor Amiya K Bagchi Memorial Lecture, delivered by the author at the Institute of Development Studies (IDSK), Kolkata, on 22 December 2025.

His public characterisation of India as a “dead economy,” delivered in disregard of diplomatic convention, reflects not merely rhetorical excess but a broader pattern of Trumpian unilateralism. While ...

When the Indian economy opened up in the 1990s, foreign banks were keen to enter the Indian banking sector in a big way. There was pres­sure from foreign governments on Indian policy­makers to let ...