Despite starting the 20th century at broadly comparable levels of development, India’s economic trajectory has diverged sharply from countries such as China and South Korea. While these economies...
Cyclonic disturbances over the North Indian Ocean — encompassing the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and adjoining land regions — have undergone fundamental changes over the last...
Film festivals have traditionally occupied a rare cultural space where creative freedom is broader than in commercial cinema. The recent decision by the Union government to deny censor...
As 2025 draws to a close, rare earth elements (REEs) occupy an uneasy space where climate ambition, industrial strategy and geopolitics intersect. They are not the most voluminous...
India’s new labour codes, enacted in 2019 and 2020, are being implemented amid sustained opposition from trade unions and workers’ organisations. While much attention has focused on their...
India has dismantled one of the world’s largest rights-based public employment programmes and replaced it with a fundamentally different framework. The Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission...
A year marked by volatile and selective use of trade policy instruments has reshaped the global trade landscape. The return of unilateralism, the weakening of multilateral institutions, and...
India’s digital payments journey is often showcased through the extraordinary success of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). As it nears a decade since launch, UPI processes more than...
Few figures in India’s intellectual debates are invoked as reflexively as Thomas Babington Macaulay. His name has become shorthand for English, modern education, and an allegedly alien mindset....
The arrest of Ravindra Soni, the alleged mastermind behind the ₹1,000-crore BlueChip Group fraud, did not hinge on a dramatic chase or covert surveillance. Instead, it was a...
