"The tenor of this city’s language was arranged carefully to suit a specific aural temperament that was a need for some; the colourful pastiche of the city was hidden. When the memory of a city…
The NPCI controls the country’s digital payments system yet denies accountability under transparency laws. This is untenable for the company qualifies as a public authority under the Right to…
Amidst much talk of “Telangana Rising” it is worth noting that the state records poor education, weak health outcomes, and rising inequalities. Growth alone cannot ensure well-being; only robust…
"India is better positioned than most to stake a claim to become a pole in a multipolar world, it is not preordained to do so. The pursuit of great power status is a choice and one that India…
Persistent comparability problems between the 2011–12 and 2022–23 consumption surveys, compounded by the World Bank’s contested adjustments, leave India’s poverty and inequality trends uncertain.…
In Assam's detention centre for suspected foreigners, the state wages an attritional assault against the lives of the detained. But that is only one part of a majoritatian fantasy to create a…
The 2026 delimitation risks widening India’s north–south divide by reducing southern representation. Reviving B.R. Ambedkar’s idea of smaller states could restore balance, fairness, and cooperative…
The 2025 Economics Nobel for explaining how innovation fuels growth was half-a-century in the making, in the process reimagining the mechanics of progress within economics itself.
The messy nature of Indian federalism reflects negotiations and compromises between the national leadership and multiple civic actors who recognised that linguistic identity had material stakes.
