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Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Public Distribution System

A study reveals that distributing rice and wheat through India’s PDS costs twice as much as millets environmentally. The PDS inadvertently promotes water-intensive crops in stressed regions,…

▶25-Aug-2025

Raghav Puri, Prabhu Pingali

Essay

What Lies Behind the World Bank’s Estimates of Low Poverty and Inequality in India?

The World Bank has used non-comparable data, made numerous and inexplicable changes to its methodology, and has departed from past accepted practices, thereby casting doubt on the quality of its…

▶20-Aug-2025

Himanshu

Bengali Muslims of Assam: In Extreme Poverty and Yet Harassed

Hindutva politics and the entrenched ethnic tensions in Assam have intensified the “othering” of Bengali Muslims in the state. But these "others" live in extreme poverty compared to other…

▶19-Aug-2025

Subhendu Khan, Soham Bhattacharya

A Costly Number is Behind India's Medical Education Woes

A rapid expansion in medical colleges has been justified by India’s poor doctor-to-population ratio. The shortage of doctors, though, might be an invented figure.

▶14-Aug-2025

Kiran Kumbhar

Ending Dollar Dominance with Multi-Currency Alternatives

A practical alternative to the US dollar system is possible through currency hubs of politically neutral, stable, and diverse currencies. Unlike single substitutes, these hubs will offer real…

▶11-Aug-2025

Kaushik Jayaram

Digital Deceit: How Astroturfing Produces Democratic Deficits

Political tactics to construct the semblance of grassroots movements work to drown out dissent and minority perspectives.

▶08-Aug-2025

Sahajveer Baweja, Pragya Mehta

The Wasted Nationalism of a Delhi Museum-Park

At an ‘outdoor museum’ park in Delhi, an unimaginative vision of recycling and scrap art pushes a narrow national identity.

▶07-Aug-2025

Akash Bharadwaj

What India’s GDP Numbers Reveal

India has been recording rapid growth and is currently the world’s fifth largest economy, but focusing solely on the growth rate or the GDP is misleading. India lags behind 108 countries of the world…

▶04-Aug-2025

Rajeswari Sengupta

The Crisis in American Universities

Elite American universities have historically shaped the country’s ideological consensus, but they no longer control discourse or the interpretation of events. The framework they established has…

▶04-Aug-2025

Archishman Raju

The Enduring Power of Pax Americana

Donald Trump has disrupted US domestic politics, but his foreign policy echoes past American actions, especially in Asia, where US power has long been coercive. Despite Trump’s excesses, Pax…

▶28-Jul-2025

Sandeep Bhardwaj

Remembering C.M. Naim, A Scholar Extraordinary

An editor and a student remember aspects of the life and work of C.M. Naim, the eminent scholar of Urdu literature and much more.

▶30-Jul-2025

Vidya Rao, Shefali Jha

The Case for an Autonomous Archaeological Survey of India

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…

▶07-Jul-2025

Juthika Patankar

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