Academic freedom has gained a sense of urgency in India over the past decade. While there were fleeting attempts in the past, the current rightward sh
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India’s forthcoming Union Budget presents an opportunity for policy makers to correct a chronic financial disorder haemorrhaging Indian Railways (IR)
Although home to 43.6 crore children and the largest number of adolescents in the word, India has consistently fallen short in public spending for its
India’s informal sector remains a chronic conundrum for scholars and policymakers. It has been studied widely and deeply for decades but a clear under
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Why do parties with ideologies corrosive to basic democratic values - liberty, equality, and fraternity - enjoy democratic endorsements in India and e
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As India steps into its 77thyear of Independence, it has moved a considerable distance from its lofty founding vision of ushering in a new
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What are schools meant to do for adolescent-aged children? Are they merely institutions that instil conformity while imparting basic knowledge of the
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In India's hierarchy of roadways, its millions of pedestrians are reduced to helpless trundlers. Despite the reality that they constitute the single l
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Tamil Nadu heads for a watershed election when it goes to the polls on April 18, 2019. For the first time since independence the State has been throug
Elections to the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are taking place against the backdrop of the fall of the Mehbooba Mufti-led government
For long a pocket borough of the Congress party Karnataka appears headed for a waveless election. The southern State, which goes to the polls in two p
In the run up to the 2019 general election leading political parties have promising payouts to the poor as part of the country's policy measures to st
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The potential rise of a private military industrial complex with a collusive relationship with the State and its security apparatus is one of the most