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Addressing Election Delays in Local Governments

Delaying local government elections for months or years—due to legal disputes, reservation issues, and political interests—undermines the foundations of our democracy. There are practical measures…
▶06-Jul-2025
Sunil Kumar

Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?

Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was…
▶06-Jul-2025
Aashish Gupta, Murad Banaji

What India’s AI Moment Must Learn from Its Own Past

Generative AI is more than just another tool—it represents a new way of interacting with knowledge. Like past technologies, it brings both disruption and opportunity. India’s AI moment is now. Its…
▶06-Jul-2025
Prateek Shrivastava

Bihar’s Electoral Revision Puts the Poor’s Rights at Risk

Bihar’s special Intensive electoral roll revision shifts responsibility from the state to individual citizens, requiring birth certificates for inclusion. With many poor residents lacking…
▶07-Jul-2025
Harsh Kumar

Mucormycosis: Lessons for a Diabetic Society

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed India’s growing diabetes crisis and its deadly link to mucormycosis. This preventable event reflected deeper issues—poor urban design, unhealthy diets, and inadequate…
▶02-Jul-2025
Tejah Balantrapu

The WHO Pandemic Agreement: Why We Need It

The main objective of the WHO Pandemic Agreement is to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics. The new pact is guided by principles of equity, human rights, and international cooperation,…
▶02-Jul-2025
Shahid Jameel

The Mamdani Campaign for an Affordable New York

For the majority of New Yorkers, coping with rising costs of living generates stress, resentment, and incomprehension. Mamdani's campaign that speaks openly about these pressures and urges bold…
▶01-Jul-2025
Adam Tooze

The WHO Pandemic Agreement and India's Path Forward

The Pandemic Agreement serves as an essential blueprint in global health security. Its success depends on the sustained commitment, collaboration, and investment of all nations. India’s leadership…
▶23-Jun-2025
Kashish Aneja, Lawrence Gostin, Sam Halabi

Can the Indus Waters Treaty Defeat Terrorism?

Weaponizing the Indus Waters Treaty will undermine the efforts to help South Asia overcome its flawed & troubled colonial resource and river control legacies. Recovering the idea of the…
▶25-Jun-2025
Rohan D’Souza

When Machines Imagine: The Promise and the Risk

The ongoing revolutions in AI are exciting. The rush to use it in public-facing applications, however, poses risk as AI does not yet come with guarantees for correctness or tolerance for errors. AI…
▶19-Jun-2025
Subhashis Banerjee

Pahalgam, Sindoor and After

Pakistan’s army has an interest in provoking India for it can then rally the masses to its side. But over time domestic antagonism to the “khakis” will only grow, which could then change the dynamics…
▶18-Jun-2025
Kesava Menon

Rights in the Aadhaar Machine

A recent judgement of the Supreme Court engages with the consequences of failures in digital public infrastructures that deny rightful entitlements.
▶17-Jun-2025
John Simte