Sewage Testing as a Pandemic Monitoring Tool
A common challenge faced by governments across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic is to identify patients affected by the ...
Pandemic Exposes Weaknesses in India’s Disaster Management Response
Disasters are testing times for institutions and individuals, processes and procedures, and policies and their implementation ...
A Reality Check on India’s Search for Digital Utopia
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the persistent digital divide afflicting rural India owing to poor and insufficient internet ...
The leadership has failed to rein in the police: A.P. Durai
Of late India’s police forces have made headlines for wrong reasons such as extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths. What is ...
Ensuring Zero Tolerance for all Forms of Forced Labour
Images of countless migrant workers either painfully trekking back to their villages of origin often with children in tow, or ...
'Mediation Finding Favour in Dispute Settlement'
Mediation as an alternative way to settle disputes is now fast catching up in the country with even some senior members of the ...
A Pandemic as a Political Reality Check
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought governments and their policies under scrutiny. In India, daily official bulletins talk about the ...
Indifference in the Time of Political Repression
The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the ...
CAA and the Devaluation of Secular India
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019), has touched a raw nerve among Indians who grew up in an India that was a melting ...
B.V. Acharya, Senior Advocate and one of Karnataka’s eminent lawyers for several decades and five times Advocate General of the State is of the view ...
There should be a mechanism by which GST Council and Finance Commission can coordinate: N.K. Singh
The Fifteenth Finance Commission is up against unprecedented challenges. First, the Goods and Services Tax has introduced an ...
Western Uttar Pradesh: Caste Arithmetic vs Nationalism
In most of the 26 constituencies that went to the polls in the first three phases of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in western ...
A Mahagatbandhan in the Forests is the Need of the Hour
Analysing the results of the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 in the 133 scheduled tribes dominated constituencies in the country, the ...
Communalism, Statehood, Militancy, and the Multiple Layers of J&K Polls
Jammu and Kashmir has nearly as many phases of elections as it has Members of Parliament: the six constituencies in the northern ...
"Income support schemes do not correct market failures": Economist
There is a proliferation of income support schemes on the Indian public policy landscape. Add to this two more by the principal ...
Dravidian Dominance Faces Communal Challenges in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu heads for a watershed election when it goes to the polls on April 18, 2019. For the first time since independence the ...