For the State to design and implement social policies to uplift Dalits in urban India, it is essential to produce meticulous spatial and socioeconomic surveys and studies on urban Dalit households and ward-level projections on urban Dalit population.

Right from the first Five-Year-Plan in 1952, Indian policy-makers have been grappling with family planning. Between 2015 and 2016, India spent more than $100 million on family

A caste-wise survey helps gather quantifiable data, but the aim must be a casteless society

The population explosion has major impacts on the country ranging from health, social, environmental and economic.Gender preferences are also contributing to the population explosion in India

EPW Engage contextualises the agrarian crisis and farmer protests in India with this reading list.

Authorities hope artificial intelligence may be better at spotting successful potential couples.

The Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2020, which envisages a ban on all forms of cattle slaughter and stringent punishment for offenders, is a revised version of a Bill that was passed in 2010 when the BJP was in power.

India’s stand against ‘UN’s selectivity on religions’ gains force from its secularism

Top athletes across the world have expressed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, which gathered steam after the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in the USA.

The book makes a sincere attempt to identify the predicament of suppressed women who find themselves in a quagmire of ordeal set up by the majoritarian and patriarchal world view.

Sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander delivers lecture on ‘Iconic objects and the new middle class’

Social capital has its conceptual origins in 19th century philosophy.

Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated—and it remains the stablest environment in which to raise children.

We sorely miss our regular haunts during the coronavirus lockdown not only because we like them but also because a healthy society needs places where people can gather, mix and mingle.

Experts predict the outbreak will lead to a rise in populism. But will workers turn their rage toward corporate CEOs, or middle-class “elites”?

The popular term points toward very real problems of male violence and sexism. But it risks misrepresenting what actually causes them.

Ulrich Beck was a prophet of uncertainty—and the most important intellectual for the pandemic and its aftermath.

The attempt to rob women of their agency is an attempt to produce a docile female population that does as it is told, and does not rebel against societal and familial directives.

According to Tatia, retired chief justice of Jharkhand High Court and former judge of Rajasthan High Court, no less, live-in relationships are ‘social terrorism.