The effort to translate this aspiration into a constitutional guarantee culminated in the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act in 2010, which remains the ...

The relationship between economic growth and employment generation remains a critical concern in development discourse. The World Bank (2018) emphasises that poverty reduction and shared prosperity ...

Since the early 2000s, the World Wide Web has been under an “attack of the snowclones” (Pullum 2004; Hartmann and Ungerer 2024). A snowclone is a formulaic expression of a pattern like “X BE the new Y ...

Krishnapriya M (krishshines14@gmail.com) is a doctoral scholar at the English department and Vishnu Achutha Menon (vishnuamenon@gmail.com) is a doctoral scholar at the Media and Communication ...

In 2020, global annual freshwater withdrawals totalled 3,985.53 billion cubic metres (BCM), with agriculture accounting for approximately 72% of the total use (Global Freshwater Withdrawals 2022). As ...

Discussions on working time and worker productivity have been seriously deliberated in the International Labour Organization (ILO) since its foundation (Golden 2012). The global discourse on excessive ...

While the government has been making tall claims about the economic performance of the state under the current regime, a closer scrutiny shows otherwise. Newspaper advertisements of the government ...

From a public health perspective, the age distribution of the population is an often-undercounted surrogate measure of many of these host factors, which can influence the mortality rate of these acute ...

In October 1765 a mob of sailors wearing blackface and masks, armed with clubs and cutlasses, visited the home of wealthy Charleston merchant Henry Laurens. Eighty strong and warm with drink and anger ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

Scaremongering over population replacement—a conspiracy to reduce native populations to insignificance through deliberately engineered immigration of outsiders—is a neurosis shared by the right wing, ...

In the early hours of 13th October 2020, a weak tropical cyclone made landfall at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. Designated as 'Deep Depression BOB 02' by the IMD (India Meteorological Department), it ...