In India, particularly post the economic reforms, consulting grew as a business of expertise (Hildyard 2021), where for-profit consulting companies became global agents sharing ideas and technologies ...

Focusing on the critical role of urban knowledge and knowers that should guide flood response, I argue that Gurugram already possesses rich hydrological knowledge—embedded in civil society maps, ward ...

The “digital turn” in urbanism is fundamentally transforming the nature of urban life. Several scholars have investigated the material and social transformations brought about as a result of ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

Researchers over the years have argued that panchayats in rural areas are often captured by elites, constrained by fi scal limitations, and subjected to excessive bureaucratic oversight (Datta 2003; ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that ushered in the current decade has not only pushed the Indian economy into a state of fear, insecurity, and hardship but has also presented the ruthless face of urban-centric ...

This growing gap, the authors contend, eroded the Congress party’s traditional support base and contributed to the rise of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). With electoral victory secured, ...

This development reinforced India’s global economic standing. Subsequently, policy attention shifted towards the introduction of a range of business-friendly reforms aimed at mobilising private ...

Energy resources, particularly fossil fuels, have significantly shaped the development of human society. These non-recyclable fossil fuels are finite natural resources that will inevitably be ...

Echoing the colonial origins of modern city planning in India, imperial architects and military engineers dominated the opening acts. They considered city planning a design-centric cartographic ...

Both have spent more than five years in custody in connection with the 2020 Delhi riot conspiracy case without the conclusion of trial, rendering incarceration not a provisional procedural measure but ...

Both have played a key role in founding the India Network for Learning Innovation and Competence Building Systems (IndiaLICS), the regional chapter of the Global Network for Learning Innovation and ...