The recent conflagration between India and Pakistan urges us to reflect once again on the logic of nuclear deterrence and its false assurances of safety. Taking off from the movie “Dr. Strangelove”, this essay discusses some loose ends in conventional strategic thinking.15-May-2025
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Being deaf is not easy anywhere. In India, it is especially difficult. Targeted policy is needed to improve the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.
12-May-2025
Apps to hire domestic workers reinforce the perception that household work should be done inexpensively by unskilled labour, and undermine the struggle for…
21-Apr-2025
A near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy controls almost 95% of India’s digital platform-based food delivery market, raising the possibility of uncompetitive…
15-Apr-2025
India and Bangladesh are due to renew their river water sharing agreement. Apart from politics, the 30-year-old treaty has been overrun also by climate change.
14-Apr-2025
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The land and the Soliga people of Karnataka have evolved in countless ways; the Soligas have blended their traditions with new practices. Yet Rotti Habba’s…
07-May-2025
The Human Development Index when adjusted for sustainability is not very different from the old HDI. The Nordic countries which consume huge amounts of…
08-Apr-2025
"Concern is greatest for countries that are most acutely affected by HIV and AIDS, many of which will be most affected by international funding cuts."
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‘The IIMC students were ... among the best in the country…having come through several sieving processes and the horrors of entrance examinations at different…
13-Mar-2025
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One of the main criticisms made in Jaithirth Rao’s rejoinder to my article is that I completely ignore the role of ‘spirituality’ and ‘faith’ and that millions…
17-Apr-2025
Amitanshu Verma

Alok Rai has enlightened us about the birth and spread of the ‘modern myth’ that is called the ‘Mahakumbh’. After questioning the myth, citing historical…
17-Apr-2025
Arup Kumar Sen, Kolkata

Alok Rai and Amitanshu Verma, the authors of the two articles, The Spectacle of the Mahakumbh and The Public Hindu Pilgrimage: More than Faith, published on 18…
17-Apr-2025
Jaithirth Rao

Clearly, Rao’s is not a very sattvik response. His ability to read plain text – the ultimate Brahminical virtue – has become impaired. I merely described the…
17-Apr-2025
Alok Rai, Prayagraj
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02 May 2025
What Do Muslims Want from Politics?, Government’s Presumptive Claim on Waqf Properties, Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code, and more
04 Apr 2025
Gandhi in the age of TikTok, History of Hyderabad's accession, India and Germany: A two-way learning street, and more
07 Mar 2025
How India became a 'rising power', Delhi's free bus scheme, Marginalising minorities, and much more
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NITI Aayog has Failed, How Hinduism Dealt with British Colonialism, Punishing Universities by Interfering with VC Appointments, and more
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