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Orangutans in Odisha Point to the Rise of Illegal Primate Trade in India

The illegal wildlife trade in India is growing with primates emerging as significant commodities in this market. The complex and often violent processes involved in the trafficking of orangutans and…
▶28-Sep-2026
Arathi Menon

India’s Democratic Resilience in a Majoritarian Setting

Opposition parties confronting majoritarian challenges require more than electoral arithmetic. They must develop coherent ideological alternatives, manage factionalism, and cultivate durable…
▶22-Sep-2026
Rahul Mukherji, Jai Prasad

Paper Compliance, Physical Reality in E-Waste Management

Fieldwork in Delhi’s e-waste economy reveals why India’s EPR regime has not shifted physical flows. Certificate markets monetise documentation, not acquisition prices, letting cash-paying collectors…
▶10-Sep-2026
Aditya Jha

Public Examinations: When the Solution is the Problem

Entrance and recruitment tests emerged to overcome the limitations of selecting candidates based on school board and university examinations. The solution has now become a much bigger problem. A…
▶20-Sep-2026
Furqan Qamar

Game of Drones: On the Cusp of a Revolution in Indian Agriculture

Drones are being used to spray nutrients, and also herbicides and pesticides across both small and large holdings in Indian agriculture. The use is still small and geographically confined but it is…
▶16-Sep-2026
Sudha Narayanan, Shree Saha, Aditi Gautam, Thomas Reardon

India’s R&D Boom Is Part Statistics, Part Reality

India’s reported 64.7% surge in business R&D spending in the latest available data (2021-22) partly reflects expanded survey coverage rather than real corporate transformation. Before claiming a…
▶31-Aug-2026
Sunil Mani, Anurag Anand

Peasants to Programmers: Continuity and Change in a Tamil Village Over 50 Years

Nesal was where land, labour, caste and hierarchy were intertwined. Half a century later, caste differences remain but the social hierarchy has loosened. Some peasants have turned into programmers,…
▶16-Aug-2026
John Harriss

Chashma-e-Hunar

In the first of an occasional column on the arts, artists and the creative life, Vidya Rao writes of her choice for the name of the column and what it signifies.
▶09-Sep-2026
Vidya Rao

The Community Dog and Competing Visions of the Indian City

As Indian cities modernise, street dogs have become symbols of competing ideas about urban space. From calls for removal to practices of care and coexistence, the debate over community dogs reveals…
▶07-Sep-2026
Mitu Dutt-Sengupta

The Looming Energy and Water Burden of India’s Data Centres

India’s race to build data centres is reshaping the country’s power system, raising difficult questions about energy, water and public resources. A report from 'Carbon Copy'
▶31-Aug-2026
M. Rajshekhar

Making Sense of the National Population Register

There is much to be said for preparing a National Population Register as recommended by the UN. But the design of the 2026/27 Census form suggests that data for both the census and NPR will be…
▶02-Sep-2026
K. Narayanan Unni

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
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