India cannot afford to cut its economic links with China since imports from its northern neighbour dominate sections of the economy, especially in electronics and pharmaceutical intermediates. This…
Governments are shifting from investor-state dispute mechanisms to treaties that encourage and ease investment. The India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement could be setting a new standard…
With its arbitrary imposition of tariffs, the US has dealt a body blow to the multilateral trading system and its guardian, the WTO. Yet, the US shows no sign of quitting the body it has weakened and…
The India-UK free trade agreement may serve as a model for a future deal with the EU. However, talks with the US risk introducing tough terms into a bilateral pact. As imports rise through these FTAs…
There is no connection between politics, elections and governance in Bihar. It is instead caste that defines both society and politics: caste parties and caste-based alliances seek to get the better…
The story of the Vikassheel Insaan Party or VIP, a party of the Nishad community in Bihar, is important for understanding the positives and negatives of the rise of small caste-based political…
The story of the Muslim vote in Bihar is not the triumph of the AIMIM, but the strong desire of the Muslim voter in both majority and minority areas across the state to express herself against the…
In the midst of a genocidal war against the Palestinians, the global public must yet support a Palestinian anti-apartheid civil disobedience campaign for a single or bi-national state replacing…
On 7 October, Hamas committed a war crime when in its attack on Israel, hundreds of civilians were killed, but since 1948 the scale of the crimes against the Palestinians repeatedly committed by…
Israel's wholesale erasure of all forms of regular Palestinian life in the Gaza strip includes the specific targeting of educational institutions and their staff. The ruination of the education…
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 Americans.
The differences in fertility between communities in India are no longer a matter of concern. All socio-religious groups show a significant decline in the average number of children per woman, and…
‘Overpopulation’ can no longer be a concern in India, as across states and across religious groups fertility has been falling in recent decades and approaching replacement level. Fears about a…
Rapid population growth is no longer a major issue in India as it was in the 1970s. Current challenges include harnessing the demographic dividend, developing elderly care systems, addressing inter-…
