Even with the best methodology there is a limitation to what opinion poll/exit polls can achieve.When done correctly, the polls should give the broad story, points out Rajeeva Karandikar, director,......
Mohammad Sajjad salutes the memory of Mushirul Hasan -- historian, thinker, academic, institution builder, -- who passed into the ages this week. IMAGE: Professor Mushirul Hasan. Photograph:......
'How can the BJP give Muslim candidates tickets if they don't have any good Muslim candidates?' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a rousing welcome at the Bharatiya Janata Party......
Arundhuti Dasgupta Singhal meets the editor who transformed the venerable Economic & Political Weekly, who retires this week.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh "You must understand," Rammanohar Reddy says,......
With the Patidar protests in Gujarat and the Gujjars in Rajasthan, the demand of traditionally dominant castes demanding quotas in government jobs is on the rise. While many of these castes are......
Had it not been for the intellectual dominance and political legitimacy of the Leftist philosophy since 1970, would EPW have become what it did? After all, there were other more established......
Here is another piece of good news on the inflation front. Prices of milk and milk products will not go up in the next six months. The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, the......
Today, the biggest concern facing the country is rising prices. There is uproar in Parliament as political parties jostle to grab as much mileage as possible from the government's apparent failure......
Bihar is apparently the flavour of the season. Many famous columnists have applauded the state's stupendous economic performance of 11 per cent annual growth rate between 2004 and 2009 - the......
Bliss it must have been in that dawn to be alive, but to be an economist working for Jawaharlal Nehru must have been heaven (with apologies to Wordsworth)! No retired bureaucrat around to say you......