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, with decision-making guided by the best available science.▶02-Jul-2025
Shahid Jameel

July 4, 2025

The WHO Pandemic Agreement: Why We Need It, When Machines Imagine, J&K Pays the Price for a War with No End, and more

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
Book
Book Review

India’s Visionary Engineer

The career of M. Visvesvaraya, arch-technocrat and statesman, throws much light on how India embraced the idea of modernisation through industrialisation.
▶30-Jun-2025
Aashique Ahmed Iqbal

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

Is Fair Use the Knight in Shining Armour?

Over-reliance on the defence of fair use/dealing might not be warranted when there are other internal checks and balances within India’s copyright law. Blind faith in fair use has the unfortunate…
▶24-Jun-2025
Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan

Stirrings of Hope? Notes from Colombo and Jaffna

"Sri Lanka looks to the possibility of politics beyond ethnic identities. But its history is a history of missed opportunities. The people want to believe that a change is coming."
▶23-Jun-2025
Bilal Tantray

Why is Magnus Carlsen Frustrated?

Memorisation with powerful chess engines is making high-level chess classical less interesting. There are frequent draws and lower player motivation, as even expressed by the World No 1. Chess needs…
▶23-Jun-2025
Abhyuday Joshi

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

Credibility of Projections and Advance Estimates of India’s GDP

Estimates of India’s GDP change from initial to revised figures over two years, usually finally turning out to be initially over-estimated. Other economic aggregates too undergo revision. More…
▶23-Jun-2025
D Narayana, Amitesh Angrish, Saanvi Sharan, Priyasha Prusty, Rupanjana Roy

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