Arguments about violence against Northeastern people in Indian cities tend to observe that the state keeps no centralised record of such violence, and conclude…
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A response to a critique of the estimates of gross value-added in the manufacturing sector finds that while the underlying data hold up reasonably well, there…
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‘Precisely because India remains a democracy, developments that increase the institutional cost of removing incumbents deserve attention before, rather than…
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Nepal’s devastating floods reopen the question of who bears responsibility for climate-change induced crises and who pays.
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If India wants to be a technology leader rather than a technology assembler, advanced materials and the raw inputs that go into them have to be treated as a…
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As the latest UNEP reports point out, we will blow past 1.5°C in global temperature rise. To deal with that, we must prioritise solutions that work, rather…
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Quantum technologies hold out the promise of reshaping computation, and improving secure communication and precision measurement. But in spite of decades of…
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As a strong El Niño evolves in 2026 alongside climate change, India’s monsoon is bringing uneven rainfall, compounding hot-dry extremes. This is…
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Odisha’s beaches face unregulated tourism pressures degrading fragile ecosystems, evident in declining ghost crab populations and rising litter. Without…
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"Awards are now routinely given to individuals and works that do undisguised PR for this government, or distort history, or further majoritarianism, while…
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Kolkata's dense I LOVE signage reflects an urban economy fuelled by competitive city branding on the one hand and by municipal populism on the other.
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The US and Israel have wrought war on Iran; Israel continues to wage war on Lebanon and bomb Palestine. Yet we continue our lives doing the routine unconcerned…
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