The Supreme Court recently struck down several provisions of prison manuals as unconstitutional on the grounds that they perpetrated caste-based discrimination in Sukanya Shantha v Union of India and ...

We imagine there is no private sector. It is easy if we try. The motivation is the hightailing of capital from the provision of decent work at a social wage in projects using technologies that are ...

Literacy is fundamental to many state-sponsored interventions in less developed countries because of its pervasive influence on economically relevant variables, such as productivity, health and ...

While cash transfers can be beneficial, the question of whether it displaces core government functions remains.

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Low-cost renewable energy available at scale has the potential to address, at least partially, the tension between development and environment. India has an opportunity to reimagine the electricity ...

Sixteen years after the Forest Rights Act, 2006, only three states have recognised a significant number of community forest resource rights, and only one of them (Maharashtra) has enabled their ...

Recent reports on capacity constraints faced by the state pollution control boards have revealed serious systemic issues—problematic board structure and composition, lack of competence in the boards’ ...

Discussing the opposition to Mumbai’s Coastal Road megaproject, particularly by the two fishworker societies of Worli, as a political and legal dispute over the Worli Fishing Zone, this paper ...

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How can India balance economic ambitions, ecological integrity, and social justice? This paper seeks to unpack systemic threats to wildlife conservation, including weakened laws, a governance ...

Luxury consumption, so far seen as a problem of the global North, is now growing dramatically in India. We explore its complex dynamics, including definitions, drivers, impacts and responses. Luxury ...