Indian state that “plans well but implements poorly” have hitherto drawn from a limited range of broad positions, ranging from the political economy lens focused on patronage, elite capture and ...

Among these, the freedom of speech was an important provision, under which the idea of free press was also included. Over the years, several policies and laws were formulated to implement these ...

Bill in the Lok Sabha has reined in the union government’s design to significantly alter the electoral make-up of the country. Perhaps anticipating such a denouement as the numbers in Parliament were ...

The latest wave of industrial action in Noida, led by informal workers, triggered by the cost of living crisis induced by the Iran war and the recent hike in wages announced by the Haryana government, ...

With such porous and relational boundaries, the act of taking care is inevitably politicised and gendered. Piku: Motion Se Hi Emotion (2015) depicts a daughter (played by Deepika Padukone), who, ...

Whether it is the “two” or “multiple Indias” or the “uncle jokes” or the marginalised comedians, of late, stand-up comedy has gathered attention, compelling even the top courts to intervene. What is ...

Longwa was an extraordinary Konyak Naga village bisected by the Indo-Myanmar border. The geopolitical and cultural hybridity in the village disrupts conventional maps and highlights the complex ...

Again, surprisingly, neither the news of “sudden” US–Israel air strikes on numerous Iranian targets nor the “headline focus” on the latest war in the Gulf region’s impact on China came as a surprise ...

The potential of the horticulture sector was first recognised during the Fourth Five Year Plan (1969–74) as a means of enhancing farmers’ incomes. However, the imperative of achieving self-sufficiency ...

However, the fact that no tribal community was enumerated in the list of Scheduled Tribes (STs) after the adoption of the Constitution of India was lost to lawmakers, academia, and various government ...

A dispute that had persisted for over a century was resolved within less than three weeks, raising questions not only about the substance of the order but also the speed with which judicial closure ...

In 2020, Kinaroo grabbed headlines due to a distressing incident involving a young widow, Reena Devi. She faced immense challenges in retrieving her lost Aadhaar number.In 2020, Kinaroo grabbed ...