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There is a fault line under Israel that promises to crack open into an all-out regional war in West Asia. That epicentre is Israel’s never-ending dual project of settler colonialism and expansionism.

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey through Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh, New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2024; pp 398, $32.69. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited ...

Ti me Shelter (2022) by Georgi Gospodinov is the theatr e of the absurd in live action—funny and creepy, with ti me, memory and history as protagonists in the clinic of human li ...

Dhak Dhak uses the trope of a motorcycle road trip to discuss several societal and emotional barriers women ought to overcome to forge their own paths and blossom into their authentic selves.

Kadvi Hawa explores the intricate relationship between climate change and poverty in an Indian setting through its focus on farmer suicides.

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The Sixteenth Finance Commission need to recognise the important contribution of urban local governments in economic development, increase allocations to them, reduce conditional and tied grants, ...

Decades after neoclassical economics vehemently touted technological progress as the key driver of long-run growth, definitive fault lines have begun to emerge in the relationship between technology ...

Why housing is expensive in India and what explains the tepid increase in house price growth over the last seven–eight years needs to be understood to address the challenge. Housing is expensive, with ...

The share of Indian Railways in domestic freight transport has been declining over time, from 85% in 1951 to less than 30% in 2022. However, Indian Railways has set loading targets of 3,000 million ...