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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-c1ca57e7b675d65e9bae773e434c26efca96c0b829489fdbebe246e8a731b497"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-cover-image"><div class="field-content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/di_top_650x400/public/images/2024/02/09/CategoryImage_Commentary.png?itok=u8oUXzhx" width="650" height="400" /> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-name"><span class="field-content">Commentary</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/2025/14/commentary/inflation-growth-conundrum.html" hreflang="en">The Inflation–Growth Conundrum </a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/tasneem-chherawala" hreflang="en">Tasneem Chherawala</a>, <a href="/author/smita-roy-trivedi" hreflang="en">Smita Roy Trivedi</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The inflation–growth debate has taken centre stage presently, with the central bank policy rate actions under scrutiny from the financial press and corporate India. The inflation–growth relationship is anlaysed granularly, probing the data to understand if growth and credit synergies exist and the impact of inflationary headwinds on both. The article finds evidence of a credit–growth dichotomy, inflation surges and employment uncertainties. Inflationary expectations data suggest the trajectory of anticipated inflation to be moving up and question whether we are standing at the brink of stagflation. It is argued that on the policy front, there is a need for close monetary–fiscal policy coordination to prevent a move to a stagflationary scenario.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/14" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 14, 05 Apr, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/14/commentary/bangladesh-crisis.html" hreflang="en">The Bangladesh Crisis</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/satyabrat-sinha" hreflang="en">Satyabrat Sinha</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>India’s preference for an ethnic nationalism domestically, when it seeks secular governments in the neighbourhood, is bound to limit its influence. Thus, any pushback against a dominant Indian role in Bangladesh will be made in terms of autonomy, equality, and reaching out to China for support or will rely on the resources of Islamic identity.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/14" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 14, 05 Apr, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/14/commentary/will-congestion-pricing-help-curb-traffic-jams.html" hreflang="en">Will Congestion Pricing Help Curb Traffic Jams?</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/alok-kumar-mishra" hreflang="en">Alok Kumar Mishra</a>, <a href="/author/pavan-kumar-thimmavajjala" hreflang="en">Pavan Kumar Thimmavajjala</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>With traffic volume increasing in India’s megacities, the discourse over congestion has evolved from looking at it as a by-product of urbanisation to exploring various measures to manage or control the flow during peak hours. We argue that the time has come for congestion taxes to be tested on a pilot basis in major Indian megacities, and for it to succeed, it is imperative that public transport infrastructure be scaled up.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/14" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 14, 05 Apr, 2025</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/commentary/why-market-price-onion-increasing-india.html" hreflang="en">Why Is Market Price of Onion Increasing in India?</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/p-alli" hreflang="en">P Alli</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Despite increased onion production in India, seasonal price surges persist, harming consumers and failing to benefit the producers. This article examines supply shortages and other factors driving price hikes while proposing measures to stabilise prices using secondary data analysis.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/13" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 13, 29 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/commentary/symphonic-zone.html" hreflang="en">A Symphonic Zone?</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/dickens-leonard" hreflang="en">Dickens Leonard</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>In the context of the ongoing debates on the language and education policies of the nation state, and the political crisis that the union and state governments precariously face in its implementation, this article is an invitation to critically rethink the promise of radical equality and the question of experiential community through schooling in the context of a warring world. Questions of language, education, and caste are discussed through the ideas of contact and anti-contact zones, engaged multiplicity, and a proposal to consider schooling as a zone of symphony in a mobile world that is ready to face the sound of a trigger.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/13" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 13, 29 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/commentary/raising-farmers-income-requires-more-msp-guarantee.html" hreflang="en">Raising Farmers’ Income Requires More Than MSP Guarantee</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/amarender-reddy" hreflang="en">A Amarender REddy</a>, <a href="/author/tulsi-lingareddy" hreflang="en">Tulsi Lingareddy</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>A legal guarantee of agricultural prices at the minimum support price may address only the price risk and cannot assure farmers’ incomes as the remaining risks still persist. Consequently, it is essential to address the risks and uncertainties across the entire agricultural production and marketing ecosystem with a comprehensive policy strategy equipped with the latest advances in technology and innovative farming solutions.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/13" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 13, 29 Mar, 2025</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/commentary/fight-supremacy-artificial-intelligence.html" hreflang="en">The Fight for Supremacy in Artificial Intelligence </a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/parthapratim-pal" hreflang="en">Parthapratim Pal</a>, <a href="/author/partha-ray" hreflang="en">Partha Ray</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The article focuses on the escalating competition between the United States and China in the field of artificial intelligence. Despite US-imposed restrictions on graphics processing unit exports to China, the launch of the AI chatbot (R1) of the Chinese company, DeepSeek, seemed to have matched or surpassed the performance of US-based AI models at a much lower cost. Effectively, China’s rapid advancements in AI, supported by strong government policies and venture capital funding, are challenging US dominance in AI. The race for AI supremacy has significant implications for global productivity and competitiveness and is akin to the space race of the 1960s.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/13" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 13, 29 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/12/commentary/identification-sample-units.html" hreflang="en">Identification of Sample Units</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/panchanan-das" hreflang="en">Panchanan Das</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The 5-digit unique identification for first stage units in the revisit data of the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2023–24 presents s ome serious issues. The same FSU number appears in two or more states, creating problems in accurately identifying households .</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/12" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 12, 22 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/12/commentary/are-there-reasons-worry.html" hreflang="en">Are There Reasons to Worry?</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/elizabeth-james" hreflang="en">Elizabeth James</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Risks associated with high growth in the unsecured category of retail loans can be minimised with regulatory controls, studying socio-economic attributes of the borrower, and having some insights into the end use of funds resulting in a stable source of income.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/12" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 12, 22 Mar, 2025</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/2025/12/commentary/climate-change.html" hreflang="en">Climate Change</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/sakshi-tewari" hreflang="en">Sakshi Tewari</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The extant nationally determined contributions fall short of accomplishing the requisite mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Accordingly, additional efforts need to be embraced to accelerate the shift towards a low-carbon economy and progressively augment the ambition level, thereby constraining the deleterious ramifications of climate change.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/12" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 12, 22 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/12/commentary/israel-supreme-court-and-unconstitutional.html" hreflang="en">Israel Supreme Court and the ‘Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment’ amid the Aggression in Gaza</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/upendra-baxi" hreflang="en">Upendra Baxi</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The decision of the Israel Supreme Court in the Movement for Quality Government delivered on 1 January 2024 bears wider comparative messages and also carries some salient takeaways for the Indian competing political parties and cadres, and citizen peoples.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/12" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 12, 22 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/11/commentary/how-can-industrial-relations-code-2020-weaken.html" hreflang="en">How Can the Industrial Relations Code of 2020 Weaken Industrial Adjudication?</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/santanu-sarkar" hreflang="en">Santanu Sarkar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The Industrial Relations Code of 2020 represents a transformative shift in India’s industrial dispute resolution system, consolidating labour courts and industrial tribunals into a single entity comprising judicial and administrative members. While the reform aims to streamline adjudication, it risks exacerbating existing inefficiencies, particularly regarding the transfer of pending cases in labour courts and industrial tribunals, the delineation of rights versus interest disputes, and the potential for further delays in deciding cases.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/11" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 11, 15 Mar, 2025</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/2025/11/commentary/options-value-realisation-ecosystem-services.html" hreflang="en">Options for Value Realisation of Ecosystem Services in Developing Countries</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/ulaganathan-sankar" hreflang="en">Ulaganathan Sankar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>Classifying ecosystem services under five groups, the issues raised by ecological economists on sustainable scale, use of marginal analysis, and distributional equity are considered. The need for monetary valuation for resource allocation decisions is stressed and the problems in monetary valuation for services in each group are discussed.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/11" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 11, 15 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-2"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/11/commentary/overwork-culture-karoshi-and-right-disconnect.html" hreflang="en">Overwork Culture, Karoshi, and the Right to Disconnect</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/babu-p-remesh" hreflang="en">Babu P Remesh</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>In the context of a recent incident of a young chartered accountant succumbing to work pressure and the ongoing debate on weekly working hours for India’s workforce, this article discusses the intensifying overwork culture clouding white-collar jobs in India’s corporate sector and new economy. It cautions that the prevailing situation is akin to Karoshi , a unique occupational hazard and social phenomenon reported in Japan since the 1980s. This is an appropriate time to revisit and revive the much-needed legislation on the “right to disconnect.”</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/11" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 11, 15 Mar, 2025</a></div></div></div> <div class="views-col col-3"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/11/commentary/jharkhand-assembly-elections-2024.html" hreflang="en">Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-authors"><div class="field-content"><a href="/author/sujit-kumar" hreflang="en">Sujit Kumar</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-summary"><div class="field-content views-field-body"> <p>The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led coalition has emerged victorious in the recent Jharkhand assembly elections, indicating that public memory against perceived assaults upon protective legislation is still alive. The newly elected government can make a meaningful initiative of “retribalising governance” by distributing power between the state bureaucracy and local self-governing bodies.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-journal"><div class="field-content"><a href="/journal/2025/11" hreflang="en">Vol. 60, Issue No. 11, 15 Mar, 2025</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 class="visually-hidden"> Page </span>2</a> </li> <li class="pager__item"> <a href="?page=2" title="Go to page 3"> <span class="visually-hidden"> Page </span>3</a> </li> <li class="pager__item"> 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