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Caste in Higher Education

How Common Sense Sustains Caste

Caste operates as lived reality in universities, where forward-caste dominance produces a manufactured civic sense that delegitimises Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi assertion. This critique of opposition to…
▶15-Mar-2026
Aishwarya AVRaj, Harshul Singh
Hyderabad High Court | Rajesh Pamnani

How Income and Caste Can Affect CLAT Performance

The results of India’s tough Common Law Admission Test are unequal in socio-economic terms, highlighting the deleterious effect that a candidate’s low income and a low caste can have on performance.
▶28-Mar-2022
Pragyanshu Gautam

For A Bahujan Economics

Bahujan students face hostility in universities but they cannot give up. They must fight to assert their identity, reject being called “non-meritorious” and master their subjects. One scholar…
▶10-Dec-2019
Aditi Priya

The Myth of the Meritorious Doctor

Reservations are — wrongly — blamed for encouraging mediocrity in the medical profession. The historical record shows that the floundering foundations of the profession were laid by doctors who came…
▶02-Dec-2021
Kiran Kumbhar

SIR & Disenfranchisement

Explainer

Explainer: What is the Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls?

The objectives, processes and the arguments for and against the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar that is being conducted by the Election Commission of India; the concerns…
▶21-Jul-2025
Rangarajan R.

The SIR, A Long Road to Exile?

There is a lack of legal clarity on what happens to those excluded from the Special Intensive Revisions of electoral rolls across the country. If Assam is any indication, it will be the beginning of…
▶30-Apr-2026
Darshana Mitra

The Burden of Proof: SIR and India’s Marginalized Citizens

In Jharkhand, bureaucratic exclusion is often sustained by a pervasive attitude of indifference towards Adivasis. These biases make the SIR a particular challenge for groups historically marginalised…
▶14-Sep-2026
Jay Prakash Sharma

What the SIR Case says about the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the SIR crystallises key trends in contemporary constitutional adjudication: judicial evasion, executive constitutionalism, disregard of precedent through stealth…
▶15-Jul-2026
Gautam Bhatia

Economic Challenges

India’s Economic Problems aren’t About Currency or Gold: It’s About AI

India needs to build AI diffusion infrastructure, mobilise savings, and sustain demand. Harnessing gold savings for public investment, pairing supply-side AI initiatives with infrastructure spending…
▶09-Jun-2026
Srinivas Raghavendra

The Great Borrowing Boom: Why Indian Households are Taking on More Debt

Household debt which is rising sharply is a cause for worry. Retail loans are growing more rapidly than for housing; loans against gold have risen and digital lending is making it easier for the…
▶14-Jul-2026
Vivek Kaul

India’s External Sector Woes

The pressures on the external sector which have led to a decline in the value of the rupee predate the West Asian conflict; they reflect underlying structural weaknesses across the economy. Medium-…
▶18-Jun-2026
Biswajit Dhar, KS Chalapati Rao

Alternative Responses to India’s Economic Difficulties

India should prevent real exchange rate appreciation rather than aim for a “strong currency”. It should redirect savings from speculative bubbles to productive investment, and shift policy from…
▶23-Jun-2026
Ajay Shankar

Public Transport

School Education: From Right to Reimbursement

A quiet redesign has been going on of India’s public education system, like the transport voucher which shifts responsibility for access from the state to the household. The southern states show an…
▶28-Jun-2026
Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan

What Ails Public Transport in Delhi?

Delhi's uneven development restricts physical access to its mass public transport network. To remedy this, planners must consider solutions suited to the city's roadscape, rather than only…
▶01-Oct-2026
Rahul Goel

Saheli Cards and Surveillance in Public Welfare

Delhi’s proposal to replace pink tickets for women’s free bus travel with “Saheli smart cards” is framed as modernisation. Yet evidence of need or benefit is limited. The shift reflects a broader…
▶09-Mar-2026
Nishant

Beyond Pink Solutions for Women’s Safety

“Pink” initiatives in public transport may offer safety & freedom to women, but they also reveal a policy tendency to create protected spaces rather than make systems safer. This normalises…
▶23-Mar-2026
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman
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