"India is better positioned than most to stake a claim to become a pole in a multipolar world, it is not preordained to do so. The pursuit of great power status is a choice and one that India…
Persistent comparability problems between the 2011–12 and 2022–23 consumption surveys, compounded by the World Bank’s contested adjustments, leave India’s poverty and inequality trends uncertain.…
In Assam's detention centre for suspected foreigners, the state wages an attritional assault against the lives of the detained. But that is only one part of a majoritatian fantasy to create a…
The 2026 delimitation risks widening India’s north–south divide by reducing southern representation. Reviving B.R. Ambedkar’s idea of smaller states could restore balance, fairness, and cooperative…
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.
The messy nature of Indian federalism reflects negotiations and compromises between the national leadership and multiple civic actors who recognised that linguistic identity had material stakes.
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…
Narendra Modi's decade in power has seen an erosion of democracy alongside soaring inequality. While religious nationalism diverts public attention, the super-rich add to their wealth. Economic…
India’s approach to fertility control was never premised on women’s health, as a result of which the fertility decline was achieved without any significant improvement in their health. Fertility…
