My Thoughts on a Unique Institution: Lage Raho EPW

In the last 50 years, it has been a resourceful forum for a variety of subjects such as economics, political science, history, sociology, women studies, literature, environment, and, occasionally, natural sciences. The GDP growth rate during the Third Five Year Plan (1961-66) was 2.8% per annum against the target growth rate of more than 5%. Some of the popular topics in development economics in the journal at that time were the mode of production debate (Agrarian Relations and Accumulation: The 'Mode of Production' Debate in India edited by Utsa Patnaik, published by Sameeksha Trust), farm size and productivity (Amartya Sen, Ashok Rudra, Krishna Bharadwaj, C H Hanumantha Rao, Prannoy Roy), industrial stagnation (K N Raj, Deepak Nayyar; also see Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation Since the Mid-Sixties by Isher Judge Ahluwalia [1985]), poverty debates (V M Dandekar and N Rath, P V Sukhatme), and economic growth and constraints (T N Srinivasan, A Vaidynathan). [...]the personal chronology shows how I have benefited from EPW in the last 40 years or so.