TIF Collection

Energy Transitions

The Disruptive Politics of Renewable Energy

In making the shift to renewable energy, India has to manage the disruption of long-standing institutional and political arrangements in ways that enable clean energy in a sustainable manner.
▶22-May-2019
Navroz K Dubash, Ashwini K Swain, Parth Bhatia

A Hesitant Transition

Renewable energy capacity has expanded globally but this does not as yet mark a shift away from fossil fuels. On current trends, energy use from CO2-emitting fuels will continue to rise in the future…
▶25-Jul-2019
Nagraj Adve

Is India Concerned about its Energy Security?

India's overambitious targets for solar energy could destabilize its power sector and threaten energy security. Rather than 'green' political posturing, the country must plan an energy…
▶22-Sep-2020
Tejal Kanitkar

Intergenerational Labour and Just Transition in Coalfields

In coal mining districts, the nature of labour dependence on working coal may change over time, but generations will continue to rely on the industry for their livelihoods. This leaves coal…
▶01-Jun-2023
Suravee Nayak

Gig Work

‘Twenty Rupees for Twenty Minutes’: What I Learned Working in India’s Gig Economy

A researcher becomes a ‘partner’ in a food delivery app for two months. What he experiences and learns from his fellow workers is that in the underbelly of India’s vaunted gig economy are low and…
▶28-Jul-2025
Kasim Saiyyad

Confronting Precarious Work

The precarisation of labour is written into the very logic of platform business models. Ignoring this, and focusing only on social security measures to protect workers, normalises exploitative labour…
▶07-Oct-2020
Kaveri Medappa, Rajorshi Ray, Mohammad Sajjad Hussain

Perils of the Gig Economy

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…
▶25-Oct-2022
Asiya Islam, Damni Kain

Big Problems, Small Wins

Despite good intentions, much in the new Rajasthan gig workers act is built on weak foundations, which will make it difficult to implement. This makes it unlikely that the workers will actually get…
▶22-Aug-2023
Sabina Dewan

Heat

Summer is Around the Corner. Is India Ready for the Heat?

Heatwaves have become a regular phenomenon in the summer. Policymaking needs to step up to mitigate the effects of extreme heat on vulnerable sections of the population.
▶13-Jan-2025
Naresh Singh, Priti Agarwal, Geeta Sinha

How Workers are Forced to Cope with Heat

In summer, street vendors and gig workers in Hyderabad face searing heat during the day and restless nights in poorly cooled homes. Understanding how these vulnerable groups juggle relief from the…
▶02-Sep-2025
Swayambhu Sudyut

The Social Experience of Heat: Urban Life in the Indian Anthropocene

Climate change has upset time-honed ways of coping with heat. The new way of keeping cool is impossible without dispossession, devastation, and pollution in distant regions.
▶13-Jun-2022
Amita Baviskar

Decline in India’s Wheat Production: Is Heat Stress in Evidence?

Decline in wheat production over the past two seasons because of rising temperatures has reduced domestic availability.
▶01-Jul-2024
Biswajit Dhar

Delimitation

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Delimitation

India’s Delimitation Dilemma: Challenges and Consequences

Expanding the Lok Sabha proportionally while preserving existing seats & equally distributing Rajya Sabha seats among states could resolve India’s delimitation deadlock without upsetting…
▶16-Oct-2024
Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
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Delimitation

Delimitation, Democracy, and Federalism: Options and Solutions

The challenges posed by a delimitation exercise that would result in the North gaining at the expense of the South can be met with a different approach altogether. We could have instead an expansion…
▶07-Oct-2024
Rangarajan R.

Empowering Local Governments in India’s Federal Structure

Panchayats and municipalities are rarely given their due as the third pillar of federalism. The challenges posed by the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies can be side-stepped by…
▶26-Feb-2025
Sunil Kumar

Ambedkar’s Vision and the Search for Equitable Federalism

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…
▶31-Oct-2025
Sudha Pai