Critical examination of Indian governance — how institutions function, where they fail, and what reforms are needed. Articles cover democratic accountability, federalism, bureaucracy, education policy and the relationship between the state and its citizens.
Emotions like resentment transmogrifying into anger often acquire an unprecedented vigor. While the socio-political discourse can routinely be dominated by alienations and a whirlwind of ambiguities in thoughts defining political vibrancy, inherent resistance continues to be built on harsh realities. History has borne testimony to the fact that people’s sovereignty has managed to triumph over…
In our quest for life on other planets, we search for mostly one thing that may indicate a possibility of life ‘Water’. This is because life begins with water. At present, India is facing a daunting water crisis that threatens its environmental sustainability, and economic rise at the global level. At the domestic level, water…
If one wanted to understand how far political polarisation could reach in reality, one perhaps could not be in a better time than today. Not that one must wait for times like these to understand political polarisation, but when the times are so, one can feel the thrill of observing things, which can’t commonly be…
Several years ago, the SP of Warangal headed an operation that killed three men in an encounter. Those men were charged by the police to have poured acid on a lady. A few days ago, the same policeman also headed the encounter, which shot the four accused in rape case of Disha. Let us now…
On the 26th of November 1949, India gave itself a philosophy through which it envisioned an all-round development of each of its citizens. Today, when we see the intellectual climate of the country, with increasing activism of justice-freaks and vigilance of good governance-advocates, we find that the Constitution is gaining more cards of itself. It…
On the 5th of August 2019, Home Minister Mr. Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir reorganization bill (to be effective from the 31st of October). After getting the assent of the president on the 9th of August, the bill was also accompanied by corollary presidential orders and made earlier provisions of Article 370 defunct….
India is one of the emerging powers in the world currently. The country of diversified cultures and religions is facing a challenge in the name of rapidly increasing pollution levels in various parts of the country. Not just India, many developing, developed, and under-developed countries are also facing the same due to pollution and its…
India jumped 14 ranks up in the ease of doing business index of the World Bank Report 2020 and reached to the 63rd position. This ranking comes at the time when the country is being cautioned by institutions like the World Bank and IMF for a major slowdown in the economy. Is the current economic…
In the culture I was raised, alcohol is something which is considered a bad habit, and the consumers are subjected to social ostracization. Like everyone else, I was also made to believe that alcohol is the root cause of all the evils in society. Then I got exposed to different cultures that celebrated drinking, yet…
Ever wondered what happens to the data when you swipe your card for a transaction with any multi-national brand to pay the bill? How and where does the company store your financial information? Does it store it within India or does it gets processed outside the country? What is data localisation Worries begin in cases…
Political Parties are institutions that play a major role in managing the complex politics of modern times. They perform important functions such as recruiting leaders, shaping public opinion and providing a framework to simplify and organize ideas and issues in society. In other words, the decisions that are made in the parties filter choices that…
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