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The NEET Fiasco

Much of the discussion about the NEET fiasco has correctly highlighted the governance failures associated with the testing and the urgent need to...

yesterday 6

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T Sundararaman

Clean Cities, Contaminated Water

The case of drinking water contamination in Indore in early 2026 reveals the widening gap between performative urban governance and the realities of...

yesterday 10

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Ravi Bhushan

Pir Panjal and the Politics of Erasure in Jammu and Kashmir

Despite its historical centrality to the conflict and its significant population share, the hill-border belt remains unevenly served in the higher...

yesterday 10

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Tarif sohail

Balancing ESG Accountability and Business Flexibility

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has introduced a landmark update to India’s environmental, social, and governance reporting reform,...

previous day 10

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Abhijit biswas

From Credit History to Credit Potential

India’s credit system remains reliant on bureau-based credit histories despite rapid digitisation. This article examines the role of alternative...

wednesday 9

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Aniket bhushan

Welfare Fees, Welfare Boards and Platform Capture in India’s Gig Economy

While Karnataka’s Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Act, 2025 aims to formalise precarious labour and guarantee insurance,...

05.06.2026 10

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Sushanta kumar mahapatra

Shereen F Ratnagar (1944–2026)

Shereen F Ratnagar was an extraordinary personality in every sense of the term. Born in Mumbai (amchi Mumbai [“our Mumbai” in Marathi], as she...

05.06.2026 10

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Ajay Dandekar

Weaponised Finance and the Tariff War

Punitive tariffs, secondary sanctions, and control over payment networks form a continuum of coercive statecraft. India’s options to reduce exposure...

04.06.2026 10

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Anoop s kumar

Digital Consumption in India during 2022–23 and 2023–24

Using HCES 2022–24, the rapid expansion of India’s digital consumption across rural and urban households via online purchases and payments is...

04.06.2026 10

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Balu pawde

Mangroves in India

Mangroves are critical carbon sinks, yet changes in their extent and density complicate assessments of carbon sequestration potential. Using recent...

04.06.2026 10

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Priti agarwal

India’s Services Exports

India’s services exports have shown phenomenal growth, surpassing India’s merchandise exports in recent past. New global developments, including...

30.05.2026 10

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Deeparghya Mukherjee

Transition to Green Finance and the Path to Net Zero Banking in India

India’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2070 places new demands on its financial system, particularly banks, to reallocate capital and manage...

30.05.2026 20

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Divya karikkan

Balancing ESG Accountability and Business Flexibility

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has introduced a landmark update to India’s environmental, social, and governance reporting reform,...

30.05.2026 10

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Abhijit biswas

From Credit History to Credit Potential

India’s credit system remains reliant on bureau-based credit histories despite rapid digitisation. This article examines the role of alternative...

30.05.2026 20

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Aniket bhushan

Subcategorisation of Dalits in Haryana

Haryana became the first state to implement the subcategorisation of Scheduled Castes based on the recommendations of the Haryana State Commission for...

28.05.2026 20

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Robin choudhary

The Guarantee Bridge

The expanding role of loan guarantees in financing India’s outward foreign direct investment is examined, arguing that they form an under-recognised...

28.05.2026 20

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Sunil Mani

When Proximity Is Not Enough

India’s efforts to maintain its primacy and remain a sole Vijigishu (a central power) in the South Asian Mandala, through its “Neighbourhood First...

28.05.2026 20

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Sarafaraj ahmed

Revisiting Inclusiveness

Horizontal inclusiveness across various socio-economic groups in receiving the benefits of government welfare policies is examined using the Household...

27.05.2026 20

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Vikash Vaibhav

Do Financial Incentives Revise Fertility Choices?

The recent draft Population Management Policy by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which proposes monetary benefits for couples having a second or...

23.05.2026 20

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Udaya S Mishra

New Series of Consumer Price Index

The recently updated base year of the consumer price index was eagerly awaited by researchers and policymakers. It includes weight updates and...

23.05.2026 20

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Sanjay Kumar

Kerala’s Health at a Crossroads

Kerala’s health system now confronts a paradox. Low mortality and increased longevity coexist with rising morbidity across age groups and genders,...

22.05.2026 20

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B ekbal

Subcategorisation of Dalits in Haryana

Haryana became the first state to implement the subcategorisation of Scheduled Castes based on the recommendations of the Haryana State Commission for...

22.05.2026 20

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Robin choudhary

The Guarantee Bridge

The expanding role of loan guarantees in financing India’s outward foreign direct investment is examined, arguing that they form an under-recognised...

22.05.2026 20

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Sunil Mani

When Proximity Is Not Enough

India’s efforts to maintain its primacy and remain a sole Vijigishu (a central power) in the South Asian Mandala, through its “Neighbourhood First...

22.05.2026 30

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Sarafaraj ahmed

From US Embargo to Blockade

Cuba’s sovereignty is non-negotiable, and the choice of society expressed by its people must be respected. It is not socialism that is responsible...

20.05.2026 30

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Remy Herrera

Intertemporal Dynamics of Household Consumption and Inequality

Examining household consumption data to track intertemporal changes in consumption patterns since 2011–12, inequality across economic groups is...

20.05.2026 30

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Vachaspati shukla

Revisiting Inclusiveness

Horizontal inclusiveness across various socio-economic groups in receiving the benefits of government welfare policies is examined using the Household...

20.05.2026 20

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Vikash Vaibhav

Artificial Intelligence and Industry Productivity

Using industry-level data from 2001 to 2020, the impact of artificial intelligence on industry productivity is analysed. The analysis reveals that the...

19.05.2026 20

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Saibal Ghosh

Revisiting Inclusiveness

Horizontal inclusiveness across various socio-economic groups in receiving the benefits of government welfare policies is examined using the Household...

15.05.2026 20

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Vikash Vaibhav

Intertemporal Dynamics of Household Consumption and Inequality

Examining household consumption data to track intertemporal changes in consumption patterns since 2011–12, inequality across economic groups is...

15.05.2026 30

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Vachaspati shukla

New Series of Consumer Price Index

The recently updated base year of the consumer price index was eagerly awaited by researchers and policymakers. It includes weight updates and...

15.05.2026 30

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Sanjay Kumar

Artificial Intelligence and Industry Productivity

Using industry-level data from 2001 to 2020, the impact of artificial intelligence on industry productivity is analysed. The analysis reveals that the...

15.05.2026 20

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Saibal Ghosh

Resisting Insta-gig Work

The two consecutive nationwide strikes by gig workers in December 2025 sent strong signals to the platform capitalists to rethink the extant...

09.05.2026 40

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Babu P Remesh

Do Financial Incentives Revise Fertility Choices?

The recent draft Population Management Policy by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which proposes monetary benefits for couples having a second or...

09.05.2026 20

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Udaya S Mishra

From US Embargo to Blockade

Cuba’s sovereignty is non-negotiable, and the choice of society expressed by its people must be respected. It is not socialism that is responsible...

09.05.2026 30

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Remy Herrera

Sacred Geography and Political Imagination

The Thiruparankundram controversy in Tamil Nadu is a site of communal mobilisation and political strategy rather than a mere religious or legal...

08.05.2026 30

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Arun Kumar G

Judges behind a Veil

The significance of naming conventions in judicial verdicts is explored in the context of per curiam anonymity. By mandating judges to take ownership...

02.05.2026 30

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Vivek Kumar

Judges behind a Veil

The significance of naming conventions in judicial verdicts is explored in the context of per curiam anonymity. By mandating judges to take ownership...

01.05.2026 40

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Vivek Kumar

Muslims, Labour and Belonging in Assam

Bengali Muslims’ labour value, recognised by large sections of the Assamese elite as the key to Assam’s economic development, has not...

01.05.2026 30

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Angshuman Choudhury

Role of Artificial Intelligence of Things in Agricultural Sustainability in India

The transformative role of the artificial intelligence of things in the Indian agricultural sector is explored, highlighting its significant...

01.05.2026 30

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Prasanta Moharaj

New Nepal

Nepal’s new government, headed by Prime Minister Balendra Shah of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, has promised to transform its polity and economy in...

01.05.2026 30

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S D Muni

T K Oommen and the Art of Social Sciences

T K Oommen envisioned a just society and lived for it. His sociology, occasion­ally informed by “a perspective from be­low,” was inclined...

27.04.2026 30

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Tanweer Fazal

Employment Guarantee

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was the outcome of a sustained deliberative process that gave it some mettle. Within a few years,...

27.04.2026 30

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Jean Dreze

Battle of Promises

The tabling of the Group of Ministers report in the Assam Legislative Assembly for granting Scheduled Tribe status to six communities has ignited...

27.04.2026 30

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Purna kanta taye

The Welfare Trap

The state’s neo-liberal cash transfer mechanism engenders natural consciousness among Adivasi peoples, which narrows a comprehensive rights...

25.04.2026 40

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Dipika adhikari

The Industrialisation of the Workforce

While much is expected of industry-led growth, many factors hinder the industrialisation of the workforce. The import of technology reduces the...

24.04.2026 20

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Arup Mitra

Sacred Geography and Political Imagination

The Thiruparankundram controversy in Tamil Nadu is a site of communal mobilisation and political strategy rather than a mere religious or legal...

24.04.2026 30

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Arun Kumar G

Making Itself Irrelevant

Indian business schools and institutions of management, social sciences, and humanities are structurally dependent on foreign journals for validating...

24.04.2026 20

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Sonali Gupta

Anti-caste Print and Vernacular Publics

Originating as Shoshita (the oppressed) in 1975 in the aftermath of the Boosa incident, the periodical Panchama was produced by a collective of Dalit...

24.04.2026 30

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Yashashwani srinivas

The Welfare Trap

The state’s neo-liberal cash transfer mechanism engenders natural consciousness among Adivasi peoples, which narrows a comprehensive rights...

18.04.2026 30

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Dipika adhikari