Using a series of simulations, this paper shows the increases in investment rate, human capital formation and productivity growth required to enable India’s targeted transition to a high-income country by 2047. A Cobb–Douglas specification of the aggregate level production function is used to calibrate India’s long-run growth transition. We show that to realise the vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047, the investment rate needs to go up from 33% to 40%, the human capital formation, measured in terms of years of schooling and return to education, should increase from 1.10% to at least 2.50%, and the annual total factor productivity growth rate should go up from 1.30% to 3.00%. Since these are complementary, improvements in one of them alone will not be sufficient to achieve the target.

In comparison to the World Inequality Database, the National Sample Survey data not only underestimates the level of inequality at any point in time but can also give an erroneous picture about...

The Household Income Survey, beginning with HIS 2026, should be institutionalised as a foundational reform. Drawing on India’s prior efforts over the last two decades and global best practices, the conceptual, methodological, and institutional requirements for building a credible, disaggregated, and policy-relevant income data system are outlined. The introduction of a strategic design framework is proposed to ensure the evolution of HIS 2026 into a permanent infrastructure for facilitating inclusive, evidence-based policymaking.

In view of the recent attacks on writer Kancha Ilaiah, we are republishing his 1996 article which was published as a Commentary in on 15 Jun, 1996 in Vol. 31, Issue No. 24 of the EPW. On one hand the BJP defines SC, OBC castes as Hindus, and on the other by banning beef denies them their age-old food habits. If beef is banned it will he the beginning of the end of the country's multiculturalism.

Will I be asked again to prove myself? My dignity wills, I remove myself. Will you destroy another of my homes? You want me to migrate? I’ll move myself. I’m no traitor, countryman, cleanse your eyes....

A new era of digital memory invites society to confront the silences of the archive and rethink the politics of collective remembrance.

For lettuce to remain crisp Tear it with your fingers; Finely chopped leaves will soon wilt. Days not neatly notched into hours— Unannounced visits, gifts discarding Garbs of reason, celebrate life....