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Working Harder?

The redistribution of labour within the household at origin that occurs in response to migration is examined. The disruptive effect of migration is...

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Meghna Dutta

Understanding and Addressing Urban Chaos

Many Mumbaikars today seem eager to escape the chaos of the metropolis. The disorder, inefficiency, and myriad problems that citizens face in urban...

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Sulakshana Mahajan

Shared Worship to Segregated Rituals

Once known for its communal harmony and joint participation, the Pattaladamma deity festival has become a site ofcaste-based exclusion orchestrated...

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Sivamanithan S

Rejuvenating Rural Local Bodies through Effective Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission

Using the share of panchayats’ own sources of revenue in the total revenue as an indicator of prudent financial management, this article assesses...

08.11.2025 2

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Gopal Naik

Competition or Cooperation?

Mainstream economics assumed that competition plays the most dominant role in mutual relations, ignoring the role of cooperation and...

08.11.2025 1

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M V Nadkarni

Silent Casualties

Skill training has been fervently promoted as one of the primary means to prepare for work at increasingly earlier stages of the compulsory formal...

08.11.2025 1

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Shruti Shankar

The Nobel Fetish

The theoretical orientation of this year’s Nobelists, Joël Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, leads them to separate the study of...

08.11.2025 1

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Trade, Sovereignty, and the National Interest

The counsel for restraint by India’s suborned elites is not only a call for surrender in the face of Trump’s bullying but also naïve in terms of...

07.11.2025 5

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Pulapre Balakrishnan

India’s RDI Scheme

India’s major research, development, and innovation scheme aims to catalyse private sector research and development in strategic and sunrise...

07.11.2025 2

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Sunil Mani

Democratising Supply-chain Finance for MSMEs

Despite the significant contribution of micro, small, and medium enterprises, they face critical funding issues in the supply-chain process and are...

07.11.2025 4

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Rajesh Ramakrishnan

What Matters for Learning in Maharashtra?

The PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024 data is used in the article to understand the correlations between contextual factors and district-level...

05.11.2025 3

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Manasvi Khandagale

The Spatial Paradox

As India charts its ambitious course to achieve “Viksit Bharat” —developed nation status by 2047—the success of this mission is inextricably...

05.11.2025 4

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Ejaz Ghani