While the operations of social media intermediaries like Facebook and Twitter do need to be regulated, the grievance committees prescribed by the 2022 IT rules will not enjoy independence. This is…
Though the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana has outperformed previous central housing schemes, the performance of individual components has varied. The slum redevelopment scheme has performed poorly and…
States have resorted to anti-migrant legislation to paper over failures to create adequate and quality jobs. These policies neither work nor aid development.
The September 2022 flooding of Bengaluru revealed all that was wrong with urban planning and its (non) implementation in Indian cities. But there are no readymade solutions; we need to evolve…
The recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights is a significant one for it looks at the law through the lens of women’s rights and autonomy, and expands access to services for medical termination…
The uncritical tone of the NITI Aayog’s recent report on the gig economy in India and its belief that platformisation will create an inclusive working environment is, at best, credulous, and, at…
The belief that goals can be independent of the means to pursue them assumes an all-powerful state capacity. The reality is that all policies entail implementation costs, and those targeting the…
Higher education in India no longer guarantees decent work in a changing and shrinking job market, even as its investment in liberal values is being challenged. Given the policy reforms and…
There has been an increase in economic inequality in India over the past few decades, with the rich-poor gaps among the largest of several peer economies. Household surveys show that alongside the…
