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Reclaiming Soil Health for Food Security

For decades, Indian agriculture has delivered impressive gains in food production. Yet, this success has quietly eroded the very foundation on which farming depends: healthy soil. As climate...

 January 17, 2026

Why Data Governance Has Become a Boardroom Imperative

Recent global enforcement actions against large multinational firms — resulting in penalties running into billions of dollars — have underscored a hard truth for modern enterprises: failures in...

 January 17, 2026

Five Reforms for a 20-Year Growth Run

India’s 8 per cent growth in the first half of the year, alongside a near-20 per cent jump in exports in November despite global trade turbulence, signals an...

 January 17, 2026

Rethinking India’s Alcohol Policy

As India ushered in 2026, alcohol once again sat at the centre of celebration and contradiction. An estimated 12–15 million cases were consumed nationwide, even as Mumbai had...

 January 17, 2026

India’s Space Power Paradox

The failure of the PSLV-C62 mission is not merely a technical setback for the Indian Space Research Organisation. It exposes deeper structural weaknesses in India’s space ecosystem at...

 January 17, 2026

Indus Waters Question Revisited

The recent remarks by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on India’s “bad neighbour to the west” have once again brought the Indus waters question into public debate. Echoing...

 January 17, 2026

Punjab’s Grain Paradox

India becoming the world’s largest rice producer and recording a record wheat acreage may signal food security success at the national level. But for Punjab — the state...

 January 17, 2026

Rural Jobs and Women’s Work Dilemma

The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G) has been projected as a more generous successor to the rural employment guarantee framework,...

 January 17, 2026

Elections in the Age of Algorithms

In barely ten weeks, four states and one Union Territory will head into elections, setting off a familiar spectacle of rallies, slogans, jingles and promises — but through...

 January 17, 2026

Language, Law, and Federal Faultlines

The passage of the Malayalam Language Bill, 2025 by the Kerala Legislative Assembly has reopened long-running debates around linguistic federalism, minority rights, and the limits of State power...

 January 16, 2026

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