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Apps to hire domestic workers reinforce the perception that household work should be done inexpensively by unskilled labour, and undermine the struggle for…
21-Apr-2025
A near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy controls almost 95% of India’s digital platform-based food delivery market, raising the possibility of uncompetitive…
15-Apr-2025
India and Bangladesh are due to renew their river water sharing agreement. Apart from politics, the 30-year-old treaty has been overrun also by climate change.
14-Apr-2025
Unconditional cash transfers empower individuals to address their immediate needs. Yet, this could yield greater benefits if complemented by public goods. The…
02-Apr-2025
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The Human Development Index when adjusted for sustainability is not very different from the old HDI. The Nordic countries which consume huge amounts of…
08-Apr-2025
"Concern is greatest for countries that are most acutely affected by HIV and AIDS, many of which will be most affected by international funding cuts."
01-Apr-2025
‘The IIMC students were ... among the best in the country…having come through several sieving processes and the horrors of entrance examinations at different…
13-Mar-2025
Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.
11-Feb-2025
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Clearly, Rao’s is not a very sattvik response. His ability to read plain text – the ultimate Brahminical virtue – has become impaired. I merely described the…
17-Apr-2025
Alok Rai, Prayagraj

Alok Rai and Amitanshu Verma, the authors of the two articles, The Spectacle of the Mahakumbh and The Public Hindu Pilgrimage: More than Faith, published on 18…
17-Apr-2025
Jaithirth Rao

I support the case made out on behalf of the ASHAs for better compensation. But as academic scholars the writers needed to go deeper and think through what is…
24-Mar-2025
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai

Professor Rachna Johri’s essay is a timely take on the rising popularity of the discipline in universities, an insider’s perceptive commentary on what it says…
24-Feb-2025
Raag Yadava, New Delhi
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Gandhi in the age of TikTok, History of Hyderabad's accession, India and Germany: A two-way learning street, and more
07 Mar 2025
How India became a 'rising power', Delhi's free bus scheme, Marginalising minorities, and much more
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NITI Aayog has Failed, How Hinduism Dealt with British Colonialism, Punishing Universities by Interfering with VC Appointments, and more
03 Jan 2025
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06 Dec 2024
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