The economics and politics of the EPW

The unique journal has to go beyond finding a new editor to emerge from the current crisis

Finding itself in the spotlight following the controversial resignation of Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, the editor of 51-year-old The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) last month, the Sameeksha Trust, EPW’s non-profit parent, has acknowledged the need to reinvent itself, even as it begins the hunt for a new editor.

Thakurta resigned on July 18 after he was pulled up by the trustees for unilaterally responding to a legal notice from the Adani group for publishing an allegedly defamatory article in June.

Marriage of opposites

If his resignation came as a surprise, his appointment 15 months ago was no less