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 ...
"Reorganisation of Uttar Pradesh should not be postponed" - The 34th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture [Full Text]
The 34th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister and Senior Visiting Fellow, The ...
Madhya Pradesh and its 'Missing' Muslim Legislators
In the 15 State Assembly elections held so far in Madhya Pradesh, one thing that has remained static, besides the dominance of ...
Nirmal to Swachch: More Money, More Toilets, More of the Same
Four years after the Government of India launched the Swachch Bharat Mission (SBM), what is the reality in rural Uttar Pradesh, ...
Wooing Voters in 2019: Some Takeaways from December 2018
In December 2018, five Indian States went to the polls to elect representatives to their Legislative Assemblies. The results of ...
'There are many reasons behind lower growth rates in National Accounts back-series': T.C.A. Anant
The Union government’s rejection of the GDP back series prepared by a technical committee of the National Statistical Commission ...
Restoring Dignity to Farming
As farmers marched to Parliament House to demand a special session devoted to discussing their problems and to pass Bills related ...