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</h1> </div> <div class="attachment attachment-before"> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="view-header view view-epw-category-page view-id-epw_category_page view-display-id-attachment_1 js-view-dom-id-312e09171ff4fb17eb5bb18521e17e873f4d1c9aad0a445fddd82ecacaa87da4"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-cover-image"><div class="field-content"><img src="/themes/contrib/epw/images/xSA_4.png,qitok=Dlzv1_bV.pagespeed.ic.D5tw4dnRsj.webp" width="650" height="400" alt=""></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-name"><span class="field-content">Columns</span></div><div class="views-field views-field-description__value"><span class="field-content"></span></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-view-grid horizontal cols-3 clearfix"> <div class="views-row clearfix row-1"> <div class="views-col col-1"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/47/h-t-parekh-finance-column/cop29.html" hreflang="en">COP29</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/c-p-chandrasekhar" hreflang="en">C P Chandrasekhar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>In a surprise first-day declaration from the Azerbaijani Presidency of this year’s 29th Conference of Part ies, a “deal” on the institution of carbon markets with c lear rules with regard to ensuring assessment of claims and integrity of data relating to carbon emissio ns reduction, under the United Nations auspices, was announced. If implemented, this would help create credible carbon markets and allow carbon prices to ensure the realisation of the promises of decarbonisation implicit in the nationally determined contributions of different countries. But closer scrutiny suggests that neither is the deal an adequate and complete agreement nor is it likely to deliver on its objectives, making it p erhaps a mere diversion from the really significant decisions that the summit must make, especia lly in areas like climate finance and fossil fuel use reduction.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/47" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 47, 23 Nov, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/47/law-and-society/excavating-minority-character-institution.html" hreflang="en">Excavating the ‘Minority Character’ of an Institution</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/alok-prasanna-kumar" hreflang="en">Alok Prasanna Kumar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Though the constitution bench judgment in S Azeez Basha v Union of India (1968), which held that the Aligarh Muslim University was not a “minority institution,” has been set aside, the Supreme Court in Aligarh Muslim University v Naresh Agarwal (2024) has not yet decisively affirmed the status of AMU. Rather, it has left the task to a future bench to “excavate” its true nature.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/47" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 47, 23 Nov, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/44-45/alternative-standpoint/purchase-assigned-lands-dalits-north-andhra.html" hreflang="en">Purchase of Assigned Lands of Dalits in North Andhra Pradesh</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/k-s-chalam" hreflang="en">K S Chalam</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Andhra Pradesh was among the first states to implement land reforms, with the conditional grant of millions of acres to the poor, with D Form pattas to Dalits and others. In recent years, the government has gradually diminished the importance of these reforms, enacting laws in 2023 that facilitate the appropriation of land from Dalits and the poor by relaxing clauses in the 1977 act. This absurdity reached new heights when policymakers themselves were allegedly implicated in acquiring such lands in north Andhra Pradesh.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/44-45" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 44-45, 02 Nov, 2024</a></div></div></div> </div> <div class="views-row clearfix row-2"> <div class="views-col col-1"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/42/law-and-society/gig-workers-under-posh-act.html" hreflang="en">Gig Workers under the POSH Act</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/alok-prasanna-kumar" hreflang="en">Alok Prasanna Kumar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>In the prevailing legal uncertainty over whether gig workers are “employees” of the platform they work on, a recent High Court of Karnataka’s judgment has provided much clarity in the context of the applicability of the POSH Act to gig workers. This marks perhaps the first judicial intervention in India, firmly putting gig workers in the category of “employees” in any labour legislation. Though currently stayed, it has large implications for the coverage of gig workers in labour laws.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/42" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 42, 19 Oct, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/41/h-t-parekh-finance-column/banks-deposit-growth.html" hreflang="en">Banks’ Deposit Growth</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/t-t-ram-mohan" hreflang="en">T T Ram Mohan</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007 threw up many lessons for banks and regulators. An important one was that managing the liability side of a bank was vital for the stability of a bank. Until....</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/41" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 41, 12 Oct, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/40/alternative-standpoint/combat-sports-and-recipes-made-scratch.html" hreflang="en">Combat Sports and Recipes Made from Scratch</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/radhika-jagtap" hreflang="en">Radhika Jagtap</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Together, the recent derogation and abuse received by sportspersons of colour in the 2024 Olympics and the growing popularity of traditional womanhood influencers, also known as “tradwife,” remind feminists of the most fundamenta l debates regarding gender, identiti es and the larger level public narratives fostered by them. The challenges and barriers to women’s emancipation need to be mapped with the contemporary public discourse. Who benefits from these regressive complica tions of gender essentialisation? Has the contemporary social media been complicit in it?</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/40" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 40, 05 Oct, 2024</a></div></div></div> </div> <div class="views-row clearfix row-3"> <div class="views-col col-1"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/38/law-and-society/sub-classification-and-future-reservations.html" hreflang="en">Sub-classification and the Future of Reservations</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/alok-prasanna-kumar" hreflang="en">Alok Prasanna Kumar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Although the majority of judges in Davinder Singh v State of Punjab held that sub-classification among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for reservations in jobs is constitutionally permissible, even within the majority, there is a difference in how the judges view reservations. One finds them as an essential tool for inclusivity and social justice whereas the other sees them as a societal pacifier. The latter might become the dominant one soon.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/38" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 38, 21 Sep, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/37/h-t-parekh-finance-column/poverty-neo-liberal-economics.html" hreflang="en">The Poverty of Neo-liberal Economics</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/guney-duzcay" hreflang="en">Güney Düzçay</a>, <a href="/author/t-sabri-oncu" hreflang="en">T Sabri Öncü</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>H istorically, central banks, like th e Ba nk of England, were primarily established to finance wars and manage government finances—serving as the “government’s bank.” Later, they evolved to address....</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/37" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 37, 14 Sep, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/36/alternative-standpoint/satyashodhak-samajs-sesquicentennial.html" hreflang="en">Satyashodhak Samaj’s Sesquicentennial</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/dilip-chavan" hreflang="en">Dilip Chavan</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The sesquicentennial of the Satyashodhak Samaj has been depressingly uneventful and unacknowledged in Maharashtra. Given that many social movements in the state have been the direct derivative of the Samaj, this peculiar kind of oblivious tendency of one’s own lineage will lead to cultural amnesia. Can we afford to be so unmindful of Jotirao Phule and his legacy?</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/36" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 36, 07 Sep, 2024</a></div></div></div> </div> <div class="views-row clearfix row-4"> <div class="views-col col-1"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/34/law-and-society/judicial-discipline-and-judicial-authority.html" hreflang="en">Judicial Discipline and Judicial Authority</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/alok-prasanna-kumar" hreflang="en">Alok Prasanna Kumar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Recent instances of lower courts and tribunals outright ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court point to a worrying breakdown of judicial discipline across the country. This phenomenon can be attributed to the Supreme Court’s own loss of moral authority and credibility over the last few years. Reversing the trend requires the Supreme Court to assert itself with the political executive on behalf of the judiciary as a whole.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/34" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 34, 24 Aug, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/33/h-t-parekh-finance-column/doubling-investment-renewable-energy-one-step-and.html" hreflang="en">Doubling Investment in Renewable Energy in One Step, and Then Again and Again </a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/avinash-persaud" hreflang="en">Avinash Persaud</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>For a long time, emerging econom ies’ negotiation position in climate talk s was that the industrialisation of Europe and the United States (US) caused global warming and made those countries rich, so....</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/33" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 33, 17 Aug, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/31/alternative-standpoint/naac-will-come-knocking.html" hreflang="en">NAAC Will Come Knocking </a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/debjanee-ganguly" hreflang="en">Debjanee Ganguly</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Recognising a failure in the old education model, the government is determined to make education more production/results-oriented or job-market ready. This has been clearly underlined in the National Education Policy 2020. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council, as an assessment team, is following the new educational guidelines of the NEP 2020. With a significant reduction in the University Grants Commission funds, the NEP has a clear message for higher education institutions.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/31" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 31, 03 Aug, 2024</a></div></div></div> </div> <div class="views-row clearfix row-5"> <div class="views-col col-1"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/29/law-and-society/breaking-50-barrier-reservations.html" hreflang="en">Breaking the 50% Barrier in Reservations</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/alok-prasanna-kumar" hreflang="en">Alok Prasanna Kumar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>A division bench of the Patna High Court in Gaurav Kumar v State of Bihar (2024) recently held the Bihar government’s attempt to increase reservation quotas across the board to be unconstitutional. While ostensibly following the Supreme Court’s binding precedent in the Indra Sawhney case, the Court’s judgment throws up the unsatisfactory and contradictory state of reservation jurisprudence in India.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/29" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 29, 20 Jul, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/29/h-t-parekh-finance-column/sri-lankas-debt-restructuring.html" hreflang="en">Sri Lanka’s Debt Restructuring</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/c-p-chandrasekhar" hreflang="en">C P Chandrasekhar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The Sri Lankan government announced that it has reached an agreement with its foreign private creditors to restructure the $12.5 billion of its external debt that they hold. The agreement incorporates a novel instrument: a macro-linked bond for which the payout is linked to the GDP performance of the debtor country. These bonds are to be issued in exchange for existing bonds, incorporating a suitable haircut aimed at restoring debt sustainability. However, the terms of those bonds may end up delivering significant gains for foreign creditors without any for Sri Lanka.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/29" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 29, 20 Jul, 2024</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/26-27/alternative-standpoint/impact-caste-indian-boardroom.html" hreflang="en">The Impact of Caste in the Indian Boardroom</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/saptarshi-purkayastha" hreflang="en">Saptarshi Purkayastha</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The opening up of the Indian economy has resulted in breaking caste shackles and creating an educated middle class. Examining the caste affiliations of board members of 89 large Indian companies, it is found that access to modern education, social and political churning that followed the launch of the affirmative actions by the government and the democratisation of availability of capital helped in the creation of a diverse corporate boardroom in Indian companies.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2024/26-27" hreflang="en">Vol. 59, Issue No. 26-27, 29 Jun, 2024</a></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="pager" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="pagination-heading"> <h4 id="pagination-heading" class="visually-hidden">Pagination</h4> <ul class="pager__items js-pager__items"> <li class="pager__item is-active"> <a href="?page=0" title="Current page" aria-current="page"> <span class="visually-hidden"> Current page </span>1</a> </li> <li class="pager__item"> <a href="?page=1" title="Go to page 2"> <span 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