50 Years of EPW: Full Movie
The economic and political weekly is unique it has been published every week for 50 years and that makes it a remarkable intellectual institution for concerned citizens and in fact they. Peter please playing the role of an educator trying to arouse your conscience I read the journal with great interest and I think the basic idea that academic work has to be for the people to be able to understand to comment on discuss criticize reject and and celebrate well my early connections with the Journal of course was not with if the W which ensues before it was born but with economic quickly which was started in the late forties by certain Chaudhary who was a family friend a bit memory of wonderful talk about what good journalism is on the under 0. V detail must be in 1956 or something like that and then I found myself writing to weaken away quickly. The economic quickly was born on. January 1 1949 founded by such an Audrey I knew such a Joseph II but I can't say that I knew him well I I knew him and he was a grandiy you know he was a grandiy and he had a lot of well-wishers and a lot of admirers so he didn't bother very much about raising money and then of course you need you need money you need to raise money in order to run on a regular basis a weekly magazine the legendary Bombay Talkies producer hatin Chaudhary encouraged his brother Sachin to set up the economic weekly and introduced him to the sixth area family who financed the magazine such injuries initially he was getting some violence from a private changing corporate body then because he thought they were being slightly didn't you be taking yes to spread Journal and the beginning was on December 25 1965 the economic weekly closed down due to differences with the finances the sex area family in 1966 an appeal by over 60 leading economists and academicians for financial contributions resulted in the formation of the samiksha Trust on August 20 1966 the economic and political weekly was born they could not retain the economic weekly name because that was under this experience so it was Rico and economic and political weekly I take pride in the fact that I am one of the few surviving contributors to the economic weekly before it became the economic and political weekly such in the way excited about starting it and it's got started unfortunately it didn't live long after that but it went to the evil hands of krishna raja afterward after the unexpected demise of such an Chaudhary on December 20 1966 dr.
kay Hazara became the editor from 1967 to 1969 in 1969 Krishna Raj became the editor of the economic and political retail unpressurized really made the economic and political weekly what it really became which was Krishna largest contribution he was a wonderful man he was a wonderful man and indefatigable he would go everywhere and solicit articles from people had great qualities of managing people although the organization didn't have much money people work for the love of the person and he saw to it that the salary range he's not much different from the office-boy to his own salary he kept a kind of a balance there the economic and political weekly presented itself differently to different categories of readers it contained a whole range of articles under the different sections of the journal in some ways it is composed of three parts maybe even four because they're the unsigned edits maybe five part because it first is the letters which are offered very interesting so if two pages of letters sometimes carrying on then of course the unsigned edits then the commentary which are fantastic field reports for parts of India like northeast then no the tribal areas which other newspapers and magazines don't write about then book reviews the in special articles and then sometimes discussion and now of course you've added a seventh part which is PostScript so actually though it is you're right I mean broadly it is one part for the inform the general reader one part for the scholar broadly it's two parts but even within the axis of need there are different sections.
I think nobody could could possibly read all of it in in a week and then you'd be just doing that and nothing else so it did offer that kind of range you know and it still continues to offer. I think at kinda well I mean I think the range that typically who is good at is quite mind-boggling. I don't keep up with all the debates at all but in our field for nutrition child nutrition health and child nutrition social policy. There isn't any decent journal for social policy in India and if it appears really the only reasonable space to publish so they were very good papers in terms of both techniques and empirical work very rigorous kinds of papers but still written in an accessible kind of way village studies in India really owe a lot to the then economic weekly just as the then economic weekly itself or something to village studies detailed empirical accounts of the Indian village from various parts of the country at that time. Alice corner thought APW should bring out a review of women studies because by then women studies that sort of established in so we bought the approached. Krishna right that was in it curry house so Alice and I edited one or two issues then. Alice went back to Paris and she felt she didn't know enough about Indian women studies etc so I was left to manage it myself on January 17 2004 Krishna Raj passed away from 2004 to 2016. Dr. C Ram Manohar Reddy was editor of the economic and political weekly witness chronicler analyst. Indeed the history of post-independence india is the history of the EPW and although ii pw's home is india its concerns are global then the EPW was about to complete 25 years of its existence. Krishna and I were deliberating on how best we could celebrate the occasion suddenly one fine morning he asked me if I could lose the Reserve Bank and take up the directorship of this institution though I was occupying a very senior position in the Reserve Bank as head of the research department of the Reserve Bank.
I thought this was an excellent opportunity for me to come back to the academic world. I took it up eventually. It has grown to be today one of the important source or data for the research workers we are two sets of subscribers on his institution another one is individuals but predominantly our subscriber bases institutions. It includes most of the aims most of the eighties all laces are. Institute's many government departments and top-ranked management institutions several private universities and so on there are certain qualities to the EPW literature that asks to that in my view one is the interdisciplinary character of the journal. And the fact that for example somebody like me who is trained in economics has a chance to learn from experts from other disciplines second one is that even within the economic discipline in EPW I will be reading material that draws on the broader kind of evidence then what tends to be published in professional journals where there's a tendency to insists on very strong criteria of evidence which makes sense for a professional journal but restricts the knowledge that we have access to and thirdly EPW has space not only for analysis but also for views and that I think is very important. The great thing about tpw has been that articles for instance which could not be placed for instance in the large law magazine because he didn't seem low enough in a sociology journal because it didn't seem sociology enough economics journal because didn't seem economics enough. It didn't matter what mattered was what you were saying and EPW offered that space if not for EPW the kind of traction that the ideas got even in the little amount of work that I've done it wouldn't have got but only the media but even the radical left parties unconsciously ignored the diversity of India problem of the adivasis problem of the delays and so on and it is EPW tamale dog got it right from the beginning and even now when you open an issue in the wo you see the new variety of India consider a remote out-of-the-way place preponderantly tribal their college teacher.
He finds something important something that talks to him not in the national media so-called national media but in the epidemic. This is a common college bondola was coming district of furniture polish. APW plays a very you know a unique place in the academic circle and of course when I join as a principal when I was a teacher also in this particular College. We used to read and provoke the students to go to this particular magazine. I'm a PhD scholar at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. I also teach at the Department of Public Policy since Davis College Mumbai. EPW has been a very very important part of my academic career. I started reading APW when I was a be a first year student at the University of Delhi coming from the field of development studies the UPW has contributed in my academic career by supplying some of the key debates. The cone tools are some of the key debates in the field of Social Sciences to ask the readers I can think of beginning with the mode of production debate that took place for more than 30 years in the pages of EPW in the 90s. There was another the great indian poverty debate in the early 2000s. I have followed the debate between professor Gopal guru and professor son Luke I on the latex perience and theory and later again in a very significant debate that took place on food and nutrition in India between professor John. Ray's and support Mike of Jinyu in my master's level masters degree. I also got a chance to publish my first academic article in the pages of the UPW and it was a really very very important a significant landmark a milestone in my academic career. I think if you don't use very much you know in the life of small towns and for NGOs particularly it's been an important resource both in terms of you know learning about issues and understanding contemporary research but also contributing because again.
It's one of those journals that has consistently documented the voice of those doing work on the ground. Now if you ask me you know what are the what for the high points. I mean I wouldn't be able to tell you specific events but you know certain broad sets of events you know one is for me the greatest pressure would be when you would get some article from some from Europe or or from Turkey and you know from some unknown person unsought unknown from a small town small college and then you work with that person and comes out is not only published able but it makes a point and then the ecstasy in the writer that look these are not gates which are closed. I was in the lock to Central Prison for almost four years and eight months. No normal newspapers. What a window but you will get one type of stereotype views in those newspaper so let me ask you. PW to send us copies and they organized and they kept sending us free copies of the magazine. Actually it was something to look forward to and sharing with other political prisoners in there in fact. I remember tearing of pages and sending it by post to prisoners in huzzah Reebok Hyderabad jail other jails in India and send up use true letters and keep a political activism alive also in jail. I think with respect to the work that I'm doing currently in basta it is one of the magazines which has taken up the issue of the ongoing conflict in Buster quite seriously and has been consistently writing really great pieces on it. That's the only place where you actually see serious discussion on issues. My particular piece of interest is the issue on a device. It's not just related to Buster but everywhere in central India when it comes to each heart kind when it comes to ERISA and where it comes to the various land conflict that's going on over here has been fairly well represented in the writings in EPW again. That's an issue that we don't get to see in mainstream writing but that again is a topic that has been touched upon and very wonderful work has come into our notice because of bbw.
I began with dairy studies and the live question. Basically that is studies would be a big word but I began with a direct question that it question as it took shape in terms of qualities in terms of social practices atrocities and and and theorization of caste question all that from the part of the death question and that was possible only through the pages or ppw because other journals had their own disciplinary limits protocol limits. But here you find that this is a very enabling. General ebw is intervention in terms of the formal politics was actually was something to really make people serious about issues of cause make them compel them to take cost question seriously not as a rhetorical agenda but as a very substantive engagement on everyday basis it should keep a watchful eye on the establishment no matter who controlled the establishment whether it's business or bureaucracy or whatever it was z pw z responsibility to keep a watchful eye. Policymaking is anonymously complex yet evocative quality political and economic governance have to measure up to expectations of a vast majority of people today economic political weekly is a much larger organization and it has positioned itself in effect as a responsible and constructive opposition. This is something which no policymaker can afford to miss for all its contributions to those who formally public policy the social activists and the concerned and informed citizens. EPW preserves its core as an academic journal APW figures highly in prestigious Elsevier rankings in multiple categories highest in India among 37 Indian social science journals second-highest in Asia among 187 social science journals highest in Asia among 38 journals in the category economics econometrics and finance 37 among 881 journals globally highest in Asia among 23 journals in the category sociology and political science 17th among 951 journals globally always in the second quartile globally between 2009 and 2015 APW citations in three categories economics econometrics and finance political science and international relations and sociology and political science were always in the second quartile of all citations recorded globally in the Scopus database the critical perspective that EPW often took on establishment and public policies led at one point to debate whether a PW was dedicated to leftist views during such injuries days it was considered a left weekly.
It was amazing how Krishna - who had also started with a very firm leftist view he had the courage and the conviction to open the weekly to other influences and opinion and I think the biggest change came with 91 when Manmohan Singh came in and the reform was introduced etcetera Krishna shifted from promoting stately development to more market economy and state should do things which it ought to do education health etcetera etcetera. There was a big backlash from the leftist. Ashok Mehra Road Christian reject turned right. Hubert's a hekia we left right left of the center right of the center in shop Dhaka to MATLAB ha host McAfee and three ahead or meso m2 is may wish has been incurred aha merrily. I could cover anonymity which are the recovered and queer itis to each other eyes will come in Kiruna or how Martha comes n Tristan or Liv has perhaps I mean leftism at such perhaps very little of it is remained at such although there are leftist political parties and they proclaim to be never and rightly so nothing wrong about it maha marry Desmond vichaar dhaara kosu protector make a zoom Adam ray kuznia PW raha Milosevic. Stan acquire capella Sita or quit running to escape Lara Akemi Jericho super gifted Jia Jia I said no order to achieve that in the sense Abney chaar logo ki EPW name author Dianna. Nellie Carr dr. Swamy APNIC Hammond bouncing which is fair enough mother. The taichiwu exception here am torpor spectrum to ideologically whose may are Junko beatific which had her Alice's II am Ganga crush the body which are yes which are da K a new cool kuchela.
Hey hey hey yeah inkay Eric Eric profit on co-coach lacnic. Ah awesome ela hey as a warning or Israel who is Kelly Michael EPW koukin Dominica crack round muhammara dish meant to do debate hedge or discourse a Mohammad Shah lopsided her a particular ideology or one may say group of ideologies was always considered as illegitimate once again. See when I meant that is a forum where every kind of opinion is accommodated. So that's why. I call it a parliament of ideas so while the editorial perspective and in the selection of articles once saw one loop for well argued pieces they were also certain. When you said everything didn't go you know just because it was well argued you know. I would as I said that I would never publish and I never did publish any article which came remotely close to justifying the destruction of the Babri mosque. So that's what one means by you know not means by that's why. I was attracted by your description of it as a parliament of ideas rather than as a left journal. You know one of the things is it depends on one's own pre directions. You know one own political views and opinions that have been formed over a period of time if I look at a PW from that point of view I would think that it is a kind of liberal not left enough for the leftists to you know. Make it their own but it has a quality of questioning and the quality of looking at the world beyond that of purely ideological position but of course like most liberal writing except in the United States would by its very nature particularly in our country would be leaning slightly to the left anyway. I think that is a space that's much-needed it is a place where people do debate. This is a place where none. Dennison there had a debate with the novice spokesperson and it was a very necessary debate to have APW is wonderful that way it is both a home and a battleground everybody is in there and so you know that you can actually be read by and read people with completely opposing perspectives coming at a particular issue from the opposite direction having a completely different interpretation or analysis and with those who actually have a completely different disciplinary approach as well there are now people who read the PW on the phone when I left six months ago.
The growth in readership was more on the phone. Then on the computer after our manohar ready step down in march 2016 4 enjoy guha. Kakuta worked as editor vp w between April 2016 and July 2017 APW continues to evolve its online edition is now being increasingly accessed by a whole new generation of readers. There's a whole new generation of young academic scholars and serious readers who are increasingly reading on the mobile and desktop streets and our task as a journal becomes to not only enable a wider readership so that they're able to access all kinds of articles that are there in archives but also to enable newer formats in which digital research can be consumed. APD will have to evolve obviously because the media world now if also a fast and then I'm sure that epd will have to evolve as well. I am NOT for a moment suggesting that the quality of the material that is published should be changed at all. The readership remains an extremely serious readership both amongst general readers and amongst academics and that quality has to be maintained. There's absolutely no doubt regarding that but what. I mean by accessibility. Is that what the net allows you to do is to draw in information from a variety of sources you are not limited to one source but one bit of reading from one text will trigger off the need for reading from another text and then it goes on and and by the time you are finished. You really have a range of views before you that kind of outreach can be much more easily handled through these new technologies that have come in to assist people in their readings and in their access to quality readings that are available.
We would very much like that. The circulation of economic and political weekly increases that we are able to reach out to younger readers who make the future of the Republic of India but in so doing we do not wish to change what the economic and political weekly is the economic and political weeklies has trends that deserve both recognition and emphasis its autonomy and independence its diversity and pluralism a crucible for ideas and concerns and its international profile you you.
kay Hazara became the editor from 1967 to 1969 in 1969 Krishna Raj became the editor of the economic and political retail unpressurized really made the economic and political weekly what it really became which was Krishna largest contribution he was a wonderful man he was a wonderful man and indefatigable he would go everywhere and solicit articles from people had great qualities of managing people although the organization didn't have much money people work for the love of the person and he saw to it that the salary range he's not much different from the office-boy to his own salary he kept a kind of a balance there the economic and political weekly presented itself differently to different categories of readers it contained a whole range of articles under the different sections of the journal in some ways it is composed of three parts maybe even four because they're the unsigned edits maybe five part because it first is the letters which are offered very interesting so if two pages of letters sometimes carrying on then of course the unsigned edits then the commentary which are fantastic field reports for parts of India like northeast then no the tribal areas which other newspapers and magazines don't write about then book reviews the in special articles and then sometimes discussion and now of course you've added a seventh part which is PostScript so actually though it is you're right I mean broadly it is one part for the inform the general reader one part for the scholar broadly it's two parts but even within the axis of need there are different sections.
I think nobody could could possibly read all of it in in a week and then you'd be just doing that and nothing else so it did offer that kind of range you know and it still continues to offer. I think at kinda well I mean I think the range that typically who is good at is quite mind-boggling. I don't keep up with all the debates at all but in our field for nutrition child nutrition health and child nutrition social policy. There isn't any decent journal for social policy in India and if it appears really the only reasonable space to publish so they were very good papers in terms of both techniques and empirical work very rigorous kinds of papers but still written in an accessible kind of way village studies in India really owe a lot to the then economic weekly just as the then economic weekly itself or something to village studies detailed empirical accounts of the Indian village from various parts of the country at that time. Alice corner thought APW should bring out a review of women studies because by then women studies that sort of established in so we bought the approached. Krishna right that was in it curry house so Alice and I edited one or two issues then. Alice went back to Paris and she felt she didn't know enough about Indian women studies etc so I was left to manage it myself on January 17 2004 Krishna Raj passed away from 2004 to 2016. Dr. C Ram Manohar Reddy was editor of the economic and political weekly witness chronicler analyst. Indeed the history of post-independence india is the history of the EPW and although ii pw's home is india its concerns are global then the EPW was about to complete 25 years of its existence. Krishna and I were deliberating on how best we could celebrate the occasion suddenly one fine morning he asked me if I could lose the Reserve Bank and take up the directorship of this institution though I was occupying a very senior position in the Reserve Bank as head of the research department of the Reserve Bank.
I thought this was an excellent opportunity for me to come back to the academic world. I took it up eventually. It has grown to be today one of the important source or data for the research workers we are two sets of subscribers on his institution another one is individuals but predominantly our subscriber bases institutions. It includes most of the aims most of the eighties all laces are. Institute's many government departments and top-ranked management institutions several private universities and so on there are certain qualities to the EPW literature that asks to that in my view one is the interdisciplinary character of the journal. And the fact that for example somebody like me who is trained in economics has a chance to learn from experts from other disciplines second one is that even within the economic discipline in EPW I will be reading material that draws on the broader kind of evidence then what tends to be published in professional journals where there's a tendency to insists on very strong criteria of evidence which makes sense for a professional journal but restricts the knowledge that we have access to and thirdly EPW has space not only for analysis but also for views and that I think is very important. The great thing about tpw has been that articles for instance which could not be placed for instance in the large law magazine because he didn't seem low enough in a sociology journal because it didn't seem sociology enough economics journal because didn't seem economics enough. It didn't matter what mattered was what you were saying and EPW offered that space if not for EPW the kind of traction that the ideas got even in the little amount of work that I've done it wouldn't have got but only the media but even the radical left parties unconsciously ignored the diversity of India problem of the adivasis problem of the delays and so on and it is EPW tamale dog got it right from the beginning and even now when you open an issue in the wo you see the new variety of India consider a remote out-of-the-way place preponderantly tribal their college teacher.
He finds something important something that talks to him not in the national media so-called national media but in the epidemic. This is a common college bondola was coming district of furniture polish. APW plays a very you know a unique place in the academic circle and of course when I join as a principal when I was a teacher also in this particular College. We used to read and provoke the students to go to this particular magazine. I'm a PhD scholar at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. I also teach at the Department of Public Policy since Davis College Mumbai. EPW has been a very very important part of my academic career. I started reading APW when I was a be a first year student at the University of Delhi coming from the field of development studies the UPW has contributed in my academic career by supplying some of the key debates. The cone tools are some of the key debates in the field of Social Sciences to ask the readers I can think of beginning with the mode of production debate that took place for more than 30 years in the pages of EPW in the 90s. There was another the great indian poverty debate in the early 2000s. I have followed the debate between professor Gopal guru and professor son Luke I on the latex perience and theory and later again in a very significant debate that took place on food and nutrition in India between professor John. Ray's and support Mike of Jinyu in my master's level masters degree. I also got a chance to publish my first academic article in the pages of the UPW and it was a really very very important a significant landmark a milestone in my academic career. I think if you don't use very much you know in the life of small towns and for NGOs particularly it's been an important resource both in terms of you know learning about issues and understanding contemporary research but also contributing because again.
It's one of those journals that has consistently documented the voice of those doing work on the ground. Now if you ask me you know what are the what for the high points. I mean I wouldn't be able to tell you specific events but you know certain broad sets of events you know one is for me the greatest pressure would be when you would get some article from some from Europe or or from Turkey and you know from some unknown person unsought unknown from a small town small college and then you work with that person and comes out is not only published able but it makes a point and then the ecstasy in the writer that look these are not gates which are closed. I was in the lock to Central Prison for almost four years and eight months. No normal newspapers. What a window but you will get one type of stereotype views in those newspaper so let me ask you. PW to send us copies and they organized and they kept sending us free copies of the magazine. Actually it was something to look forward to and sharing with other political prisoners in there in fact. I remember tearing of pages and sending it by post to prisoners in huzzah Reebok Hyderabad jail other jails in India and send up use true letters and keep a political activism alive also in jail. I think with respect to the work that I'm doing currently in basta it is one of the magazines which has taken up the issue of the ongoing conflict in Buster quite seriously and has been consistently writing really great pieces on it. That's the only place where you actually see serious discussion on issues. My particular piece of interest is the issue on a device. It's not just related to Buster but everywhere in central India when it comes to each heart kind when it comes to ERISA and where it comes to the various land conflict that's going on over here has been fairly well represented in the writings in EPW again. That's an issue that we don't get to see in mainstream writing but that again is a topic that has been touched upon and very wonderful work has come into our notice because of bbw.
I began with dairy studies and the live question. Basically that is studies would be a big word but I began with a direct question that it question as it took shape in terms of qualities in terms of social practices atrocities and and and theorization of caste question all that from the part of the death question and that was possible only through the pages or ppw because other journals had their own disciplinary limits protocol limits. But here you find that this is a very enabling. General ebw is intervention in terms of the formal politics was actually was something to really make people serious about issues of cause make them compel them to take cost question seriously not as a rhetorical agenda but as a very substantive engagement on everyday basis it should keep a watchful eye on the establishment no matter who controlled the establishment whether it's business or bureaucracy or whatever it was z pw z responsibility to keep a watchful eye. Policymaking is anonymously complex yet evocative quality political and economic governance have to measure up to expectations of a vast majority of people today economic political weekly is a much larger organization and it has positioned itself in effect as a responsible and constructive opposition. This is something which no policymaker can afford to miss for all its contributions to those who formally public policy the social activists and the concerned and informed citizens. EPW preserves its core as an academic journal APW figures highly in prestigious Elsevier rankings in multiple categories highest in India among 37 Indian social science journals second-highest in Asia among 187 social science journals highest in Asia among 38 journals in the category economics econometrics and finance 37 among 881 journals globally highest in Asia among 23 journals in the category sociology and political science 17th among 951 journals globally always in the second quartile globally between 2009 and 2015 APW citations in three categories economics econometrics and finance political science and international relations and sociology and political science were always in the second quartile of all citations recorded globally in the Scopus database the critical perspective that EPW often took on establishment and public policies led at one point to debate whether a PW was dedicated to leftist views during such injuries days it was considered a left weekly.
It was amazing how Krishna - who had also started with a very firm leftist view he had the courage and the conviction to open the weekly to other influences and opinion and I think the biggest change came with 91 when Manmohan Singh came in and the reform was introduced etcetera Krishna shifted from promoting stately development to more market economy and state should do things which it ought to do education health etcetera etcetera. There was a big backlash from the leftist. Ashok Mehra Road Christian reject turned right. Hubert's a hekia we left right left of the center right of the center in shop Dhaka to MATLAB ha host McAfee and three ahead or meso m2 is may wish has been incurred aha merrily. I could cover anonymity which are the recovered and queer itis to each other eyes will come in Kiruna or how Martha comes n Tristan or Liv has perhaps I mean leftism at such perhaps very little of it is remained at such although there are leftist political parties and they proclaim to be never and rightly so nothing wrong about it maha marry Desmond vichaar dhaara kosu protector make a zoom Adam ray kuznia PW raha Milosevic. Stan acquire capella Sita or quit running to escape Lara Akemi Jericho super gifted Jia Jia I said no order to achieve that in the sense Abney chaar logo ki EPW name author Dianna. Nellie Carr dr. Swamy APNIC Hammond bouncing which is fair enough mother. The taichiwu exception here am torpor spectrum to ideologically whose may are Junko beatific which had her Alice's II am Ganga crush the body which are yes which are da K a new cool kuchela.
Hey hey hey yeah inkay Eric Eric profit on co-coach lacnic. Ah awesome ela hey as a warning or Israel who is Kelly Michael EPW koukin Dominica crack round muhammara dish meant to do debate hedge or discourse a Mohammad Shah lopsided her a particular ideology or one may say group of ideologies was always considered as illegitimate once again. See when I meant that is a forum where every kind of opinion is accommodated. So that's why. I call it a parliament of ideas so while the editorial perspective and in the selection of articles once saw one loop for well argued pieces they were also certain. When you said everything didn't go you know just because it was well argued you know. I would as I said that I would never publish and I never did publish any article which came remotely close to justifying the destruction of the Babri mosque. So that's what one means by you know not means by that's why. I was attracted by your description of it as a parliament of ideas rather than as a left journal. You know one of the things is it depends on one's own pre directions. You know one own political views and opinions that have been formed over a period of time if I look at a PW from that point of view I would think that it is a kind of liberal not left enough for the leftists to you know. Make it their own but it has a quality of questioning and the quality of looking at the world beyond that of purely ideological position but of course like most liberal writing except in the United States would by its very nature particularly in our country would be leaning slightly to the left anyway. I think that is a space that's much-needed it is a place where people do debate. This is a place where none. Dennison there had a debate with the novice spokesperson and it was a very necessary debate to have APW is wonderful that way it is both a home and a battleground everybody is in there and so you know that you can actually be read by and read people with completely opposing perspectives coming at a particular issue from the opposite direction having a completely different interpretation or analysis and with those who actually have a completely different disciplinary approach as well there are now people who read the PW on the phone when I left six months ago.
The growth in readership was more on the phone. Then on the computer after our manohar ready step down in march 2016 4 enjoy guha. Kakuta worked as editor vp w between April 2016 and July 2017 APW continues to evolve its online edition is now being increasingly accessed by a whole new generation of readers. There's a whole new generation of young academic scholars and serious readers who are increasingly reading on the mobile and desktop streets and our task as a journal becomes to not only enable a wider readership so that they're able to access all kinds of articles that are there in archives but also to enable newer formats in which digital research can be consumed. APD will have to evolve obviously because the media world now if also a fast and then I'm sure that epd will have to evolve as well. I am NOT for a moment suggesting that the quality of the material that is published should be changed at all. The readership remains an extremely serious readership both amongst general readers and amongst academics and that quality has to be maintained. There's absolutely no doubt regarding that but what. I mean by accessibility. Is that what the net allows you to do is to draw in information from a variety of sources you are not limited to one source but one bit of reading from one text will trigger off the need for reading from another text and then it goes on and and by the time you are finished. You really have a range of views before you that kind of outreach can be much more easily handled through these new technologies that have come in to assist people in their readings and in their access to quality readings that are available.
We would very much like that. The circulation of economic and political weekly increases that we are able to reach out to younger readers who make the future of the Republic of India but in so doing we do not wish to change what the economic and political weekly is the economic and political weeklies has trends that deserve both recognition and emphasis its autonomy and independence its diversity and pluralism a crucible for ideas and concerns and its international profile you you.