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Featured Articles

The Crisis of Academic Formation in the Age of AI

Generative AI collapses the boundary between assistance & substitution in higher education, simulating rather than summarising thought. While AI can mitigate the inequalities among students, it…
▶15-Aug-2026
Aniruddha Jena, Usha Raman

Before Delhi Chokes and Starts Blaming Farmers Again

A crisis mode of governance operates while addressing the twin problems of Delhi’s smog and stubble burning, resulting in unproven and counterproductive solutions being pushed onto farms.
▶29-Aug-2026
Nikhit Agrawal

Imagined Belonging: A Judicial Fiction in Three Parts

A recent Supreme Court judgement wades into deciding who belongs or not to the SC and ST categories, and runs counter to Ambedkar's idea of fraternity: building a common brotherhood a shared…
▶25-Aug-2026
Sumit Baudh

How Credible are India’s New Manufacturing GDP Estimates?

A verification exercise of the estimates of manufacturing in India’s new GDP series indicates that the over-estimation could be 24.5%-40.9%. The accuracy of the new estimates can be answered only…
▶25-Aug-2026
Jatinder S. Bedi, R Nagaraj

Sumit Sarkar: Historian, Thinker, Teacher

Sumit Sarkar’s engaged scholarly enterprise and sustained writings were no mere intellectual pursuit; he was passionately committed to social democracy.
▶24-Aug-2026
Dhiraj Kumar Nite

Marriage Files: In Defence of Divorce

In India, despite ample legal reforms, marriage remains stubbornly sacramental, and divorce, a social stigma. Marital death is not an outlier but a social fact. By giving the institution of divorce…
▶13-Aug-2026
Anindita Chakrabarti

EXAM-NATION: Regulating Opportunity in an Unequal Society

As the only gateway to un-inherited opportunity for most Indians, the public entrance exam is a critical institution. But we have worshipped its form and ignored its social roles. The GenZ protests…
▶14-Aug-2026
Satish Deshpande

Trying to Sell the Family Silver, Again

Besides laying down unrealistic targets for receipts from sale, India’s disinvestment strategy continues to prioritise liquidation of profitable PSUs, which converts recurring dividend income into…
▶14-Aug-2026
Abhilash S.

Towards a Command Society in West Bengal

West Bengal’s BJP government marks a shift from Mamata Banerjee’s negotiation-based “franchisee politics” towards hierarchical “command politics”. Guided by RSS discipline, this reordering privileges…
▶08-Aug-2026
Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya

Citizens, Suspects, and the Portable Border

India’s eastern border sustains two political imaginations: a security frontier and a labour frontier of everyday survival. With the security logic now dominating, categories meant for foreigners…
▶27-Jul-2026
Kabir Rana, Kumar Rana

What Conservation Cannot See

Conservation law has no register to value landscapes sustained by a community's sense of duty. The default instinct to fold these landscapes into familiar administrative categories erases the…
▶11-Aug-2026
Sanjana Krishnan

The Failed Promise of Higher Education

Indian families invest in higher education, trusting it will deliver good jobs for their children. But with jobs growing scarce, work that is available matching neither qualifications nor aspirations…
▶05-Aug-2026
Krishna Priya, Rosa Abraham
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