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Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), published by Sameeksha Trust, a public charitable trust registered with the office of the Charity Commissioner, Mumbai, India. EPW has completed 50 years of publication. Details here This reading list looks at the history of growing majoritarianism in India in the last three decades. The Press Council of India should examine its mandate and objectives. Permitting 100% FDI in commercial coal mining is fraught with production and ecological risks. The contemporary Dalit movement in Maharashtra is marked by five distinct trends, that is, increased militancy, sub-caste as*ertion, middle-clas* activism, public symbolism, and a rightward shift. Matting of hair is a neglected health problem in India with religious undertones and paucity of research on it.. A NOVEL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING DELHI’S COMPLEX AIR POLLUTION PROBLEM. The Code on Wages, 2019 ostensibly seeks to harmonise four different laws governing the payment of wages and minimum wages in India, and Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India by Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Cambridge, New York, Port Melbourne (Australia), New Delhi and Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2018; pp xxii + 318, price not indicated. Indian agriculture has been facing intrusion of large capital into its domain in various forms, such as contract fa*ming, industrialised agriculture, forcible acquisition of agricultural land for industrial plants.. STATEWISE REPORT CARDS ON ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY OF AGRICULTURE IN INDIA. The process of Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) involves visioning of an ideal built on grounded initiatives, spanning the full range of alternative approaches to justice, equity, and sustainability. The rapid rise in suicide rates above 15 per lakh persons for te*naged males generated great public concern in Australia in the 1980s. Considered a “crisis” level, this led to an intense study of the causes of youth suicide as well as intensive efforts to devise public