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Is Forest Certification Necessary for Sustainable Forest Management in India?

India’s new wood certification scheme hopes to lead to greener forests. However, studies show limited market value gains for certified products. Certification…
▶15-Apr-2024
Dhanapal Govindarajulu

Karnataka’s Experiments with Managing Government Disputes

Evaluations of Karnataka’s dispute resolution policies of 2011 and 2021 reveal that the concept of “efficient and responsible litigation” has been missing…
▶21-Mar-2024
Ashwini Obulesh, Varsha Aithala

Youth Anger and Religious Hate in India Today

Youth anger in India has changed from collective action for a better society to competitive religiosity and hatred.
▶11-Mar-2024
Pramod Kumar

Bihar Turns its Back on School Education

There are two interconnected root causes for the travails of Bihar’s school education system—a paucity of resources and ineffective policies. There is a…
▶07-Feb-2024
Paran Amitava, Kanika Sharma

The New Land Reform of Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh has taken a significant decision to give formal ownership titles to the holders (mainly Dalit farmers) of lands assigned to them decades ago.
▶15-Feb-2024
Venkateshwarlu K.

How Much do Agricultural Households Earn from Farming?

The “average farmer” label does not mean much in India when income levels vary greatly across farming families in states. When we put down how much different…
▶07-Feb-2024
Vachaspati Shukla

Climate Change Aggravates Consumption Inequality

High temperatures have unequal impacts on household consumption across India and thus widen socio-economic inequality. To fight this, the country’s climate…
▶01-Jan-2024
Raavi Aggarwal

Can a Caste Census Reverse the BJP's Advantage in Wooing Lower Castes?

A caste census may not transform the course of electoral politics. But bringing caste contradictions to the fore could give the social justice parties a…
▶27-Nov-2023
Pankaj Kumar

Freebie or Freedom? Tamil Nadu’s Free Bus Travel Scheme for Women

Few have tried to understand the significance of the free bus travel scheme that a handful of states have introduced. In Tamil Nadu the benefits for women have…
▶20-Nov-2023
Sumana Narayanan

Against the Targeting of IIT Bombay Professor

IIT Bombay faculty statement against the recent attacks on and targeting of a colleague and social media posts with biased allegations.
▶14-Nov-2023
Faculty Forum IIT Bombay

Why White Americans see the Brutality of Hamas but do not see the Brutalities Inflicted on the Palestinians

The reason why many decent Americans do not see the tragedy of the Palestinians is that Israel is doing to Palestine what white Americans did to the Native…
▶16-Oct-2023
Tabish Khair

Making Sense of Recent Developments in the Indian Labour Market

The PLFS for 2022-23 reports the highest workforce participation rate and the lowest unemployment rate in the last six years. This has been the result of the…
▶17-Oct-2023
Akshit Arora