TIF Collection

Trade in turmoil

India’s Economic Dependence on China

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…
▶23-Jul-2020
Biswajit Dhar, KS Chalapati Rao

The India-EFTA Deal: A Model for Developing Countries

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…
▶15-May-2024
Danish

The Death of Multilateralism in Trade; the Extinction of the WTO

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…
▶23-Jul-2025
D. Ravi Kanth

What will it take for India's New Free Trade Agreements to Avoid Pitfalls?

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…
▶04-Jun-2025
Biswajit Dhar

Bihar

Hopelessness and Despair in Bihar: Misgovernance does not Matter, Caste does

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…
▶16-Jul-2024
Apoorvanand, Neel Madhav

Understanding Small Caste-Based Political Parties in India

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…
▶07-Aug-2019
Sarthak Bagchi

Muslim politics and the 2020 Bihar Election

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…
▶02-Dec-2020
Julien Levesque
Review

Making the State Accountable

A compelling story about citizen-led movements, government accountability, village politics, and decentralisation in Bihar.
▶03-Mar-2022
Rohit Chandra

Palestine

Palestine’s Struggle Continues: The Way Forward

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…
▶15-Aug-2024
Achin Vanaik
Explainer

Palestine and Israel: Historical, Legal and Moral Issues

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…
▶24-Oct-2023
Rohini Hensman

Scholasticide in Gaza

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…
▶02-Feb-2025
Adam Tooze

Why White Americans see the Brutality of Hamas but do not see the Brutalities Inflicted on the Palestinians

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.
▶16-Oct-2023
Tabish Khair

Fertility Transition

Rapid Convergence of Fertility across all Socio-Religious Groups in India

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…
▶10-Jul-2024
Srinivas Goli, Shubhra Kriti

India’s Fertility Transition and Differences between Religious Groups

‘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…
▶01-Nov-2021
K. S. James, Md Juel Rana

Prospective Changes in the Age Structure of India’s Population: The Regional Dimension

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-…
▶15-Jul-2024
Purushottam M. Kulkarni