A fascinating discussion of Indira Gandhi’s political career from the late 1960s to her assassination in 1984, linking the changes in India's democracy to her leadership. Using the concept of…
The 2025 Economics Nobel for explaining how innovation fuels growth was half-a-century in the making, in the process reimagining the mechanics of progress within economics itself.
Cultural plurality cannnot serve as a bulwark against the heady unifying power of majoritarianism buttressed by official political power. To defend democracy, we need to reacquaint people with the…
The ASI’s lack of autonomy, professional management, and financial independence undermines its credibility as an expert body. Its effectiveness is compromised by political control. Granting the ASI…
India has a strong case to revise the Indus Waters Treaty. But how it gets Pakistan onto the table will cast a shadow on its water-sharing deals with China and Bangladesh.
Questions about how the Pakistani state would be defined and who could legitimately claim citizenship within it were intensely debated in the early years of the new nation.
Indian and American trysts with protectionism serve as bookends for long-running critiques of globalisation, from the perspective of both poverty and plenty, respectively.
Many students today have a negative view of Gandhi, based on a slanted representation that is widely prevalent online. It is challenging but fruitful to explore these views and expose students to a…
‘What we learn from this volume is that there was (and still is) enough blame to go around for the tragic events of September 1948. And that the polarisation of opinion between accession and…
American boosterism for India since the early 2000s played a crucial role in according the country status as a Rising Power. India must recognise that the US narrative is not always objective but…
