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Letters
Sample design
The hypothetical example given in the article while commenting on the sampling methodology gives the example of a block with 50,000 households from which 18…
▶09-Jul-2024
PC Mohanan, Kozhikode
Monitor the government
I strongly suggest that the INDIA coalition should adopt the proposal made by Partha Chatterjee in this article `Verdict 2024: Expectations Great and Littel'…
▶19-Jun-2024
Sumanta Banerjee, Hyderabad
Inadequate analysis
The article deals with a very important issue but the treatment of the subject is very diffused and all over the place; it does not pull together a disparate…
▶30-May-2024
Padmini Swaminathan Chennai
Authors' Response
On the first comment by Prakriti Srivastava and Prerna Singh Bindra, the issue is that we have used the words, “awaiting declaration,” rather than the more…
▶11-Jan-2024
Ghazala Shahbuddin and Pia Sethi
Verdict 2024, Why government canteens are important, Renaming caste and retaining privilege, and more
Tax justice and wealth redistribution in India, Corporate business and political finance, Welfare spending in the past two decades, and more
The Indian Economy is Doing Well, But Not Many Indians Are; In Campaign 2024, the BJP's Hindutva Contends With the Congress Party's Nyay; and more
The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey of 2022-23, The dispensable scheme workers, A review of Ashok Gopal's biography of BR Ambedkar, and more
The new criminal justice law; The politics of erasure; Protection of the rapist and the molestor in neoliberal India; and more