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Joshimath: An Avoidable Disaster

Joshimath has been sinking slowly for years due to various reasons, but the recent accelerated sinking may be due to the execution of major projects. Little has ever been done to mitigate the causes…
▶07-Mar-2023
Ravi Chopra

Tiger-Charmers of the Sundarbans

The tiger-charmers of the Sundarbans have been seen by forest guards and scientists as unscrupulous. But the islanders argue that tiger-charmers are able to better communicate between human and…
▶09-Mar-2023
Annu Jalais
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Book Review

India’s Growth Trajectory: Insiders and Outsiders

‘India is Broken’ indicts all but a few from the political leadership for India’s economic failures. Does it fail to account for the challenges of building unity in a segmented society? Does it under…
▶06-Mar-2023
Sukumar Muralidharan

India Derailed: A Falling Investment Rate and Deindustrialisation

Falling investment rates and declining manufacturing growth rates have marked the Indian GDP growth reversal since the mid-2010s. These structural defects have not yet been addressed. The current…
▶21-Feb-2023
R Nagaraj
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Book Review

History in the Service of Hindutva

For Savarkar, history was a critical tool in a war to protect the Hindu nation. A new book examines the relationship between history and politics in Savarkar's thought and braids together the…
▶27-Feb-2023
Srinath Raghavan

A New Dawn? Can India Reverse Its Staggering Inequality?

How long will India’s working people live with a policy regime that concentrates unimaginable levels of wealth in a few hands and leaves millions of people struggling for food, healthcare, decent…
▶24-Feb-2023
Harsh Mander

The Curious Case of ‘Due Process’ in the Indian Constitution

The Constituent Assembly considered an American-style 'due process' clause for the Constitution but adopted a formula to limit judicial review. Unwilling to heed that limitation, judges…
▶13-Feb-2023
Vikram Raghavan
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Book Review

An Elegy for Gandhi’s Un-Gandhian India

When you retrace Gandhi’s steps to Dandi you get to understand what ‘vikas’ means and what it does not mean for Gujarat and for all of India today. A most unusual book about a most unusual journey.
▶20-Feb-2023
Sudhir Chandra

ChatGPT Interviewed: 'My Strengths and My Limits'

ChatGPT tells us in its own words of how it does what it does, its strengths, and also its inability to carry out deductive reasoning and make hypotheses. It says it can be an excellent supplement…
▶14-Feb-2023
Subhashis Banerjee

How to Trap a Cheetah (And Why You Shouldn’t Have)

Cheetahs were highly prized in medieval and colonial India. They were trapped to meet the demand from royalty, a practice that continued well into the 19th century, leading to their ultimate…
▶09-Feb-2023
Raza Kazmi

Who is Indigenous in Assam? Politics in the Vernacular

Claims to Indigenity in Assam are usually treated with sympathy. The exceptions, though, tell their own story.
▶07-Feb-2023
Sanjib Baruah

Was India the Mother of Democracy?

There are claims that the roots of democratic institutions can be found in ancient India. Studies have shown that such institutions have existed not only in India but also in other parts of the world…
▶06-Feb-2023
Sumit Guha
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