South Asia Citizens Web

commentary by Ahilan Kadirgamar, Vijay K. Nagaraj and Wimalanath Weerarathne

A unified Opposition will have to reach out to the electorate with a programme that boldly commits itself to sweeping reforms like universal health care and breaks decisively with the stagnation of real wages that has characterised the past two decades.

The Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram hostel in Mollarpur, in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, is a symbol of a giant, long-term project that largely escapes mainstream attention.

The history behind the ordinance that bans transfer of property of those who once left for Pakistan.

We write to you today as longstanding admirers of EPW and as proud members of the “EPW community” that has benefited from the existence of this unique and high-quality journal. We wish to express our concern at what we have heard of the unusual circumstances in which the incumbent Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, Dr. Rammanohar Reddy, who had decided to step down in April 2016 but had agreed to continue as Editor-in-Chief or in some other position as requested by the Board of Trustees, has chosen to formally announce that he is resigning from his position as Editor and severing all links with the institution.