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Can there be Fair Competition in the Food Delivery Market?

A near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy controls almost 95% of India’s digital platform-based food delivery market, raising the possibility of uncompetitive practices as in their new service of food…

▶15-Apr-2025

Krishnapriya V.S.

Big Problems, Small Wins

Despite good intentions, much in the new Rajasthan gig workers act is built on weak foundations, which will make it difficult to implement. This makes it unlikely that the workers will actually get…

▶22-Aug-2023

Sabina Dewan

Perils of the Gig Economy

The uncritical tone of the NITI Aayog’s recent report on the gig economy in India and its belief that platformisation will create an inclusive working environment is, at best, credulous, and, at…

▶25-Oct-2022

Asiya Islam, Damni Kain

The precarisation of labour is written into the very logic of platform business models. Ignoring this, and focusing only on social security measures to protect workers, normalises exploitative labour…

▶07-Oct-2020

Kaveri Medappa, Rajorshi Ray, Mohammad Sajjad Hussain

The Gig Economy in the Pandemic

Several firms in the gig economy have expanded operations during the Covid-19 pandemic. This has been made possible by the ready availability of an at-risk labour force. Fashioned as ‘aggregators’,…

▶04-Jun-2020

Gayatri Nair