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:......
Economists Maitreesh Ghatak, Parikshit Ghosh and Ashok Kotwal challenge the prevailing view that the diminished electoral prospects of the United Progressive Alliance government is the result of......
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......
The government has set up a high-powered committee to critically review the available estimates of domestic and national savings and investment in the Indian economy. The panel headed by Dr C......
In 1965, Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, then called the Economic Weekly, asked Professor K N Raj to recommend an assistant editor for his magazine. K N......
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......