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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
Unconditional cash transfers empower individuals to address their immediate needs. Yet, this could yield greater benefits if complemented by public goods. The…
▶02-Apr-2025
The ASHAs of Kerala receive a meagre honorarium though they play an indispensable role in the state’s healthcare. They are seen as 'volunteers' and…
▶24-Mar-2025
While fare-free schemes for urban public transport ease financial barriers on mobility, their real impact is in empowering women through better city access. An…
▶16-Feb-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."
▶01-Apr-2025
‘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
Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.
▶11-Feb-2025
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Letters
Appointment Procedures
I support the case made out on behalf of the ASHAs for better compensation. But as academic scholars the writers needed to go deeper and think through what is…
▶24-Mar-2025
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai
'Indian' systems of Psychology
Professor Rachna Johri’s essay is a timely take on the rising popularity of the discipline in universities, an insider’s perceptive commentary on what it says…
▶24-Feb-2025
Raag Yadava, New Delhi
Sidestepping local bodies
This is a useful article where a lot of thought has gone into delineating what can be done to assuage the fears of the Southern states that there will be a…
▶26-Feb-2025
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai
More on AK Bagchi
Achin Chakraborty has written a splendid article about Amiya Kumar Bagchi from his vantage point of a chair and earlier as Director of the Institute of…
▶16-Dec-2024
Kumaraswamy Velupillai
Gandhi in the age of TikTok, History of Hyderabad's accession, India and Germany: A two-way learning street, and more
How India became a 'rising power', Delhi's free bus scheme, Marginalising minorities, and much more
NITI Aayog has Failed, How Hinduism Dealt with British Colonialism, Punishing Universities by Interfering with VC Appointments, and more
Strengthening India's health system, Global climate action at COP29, Gandhi's intimate friend, and more
