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The ASHAs of Kerala receive a meagre honorarium though they play an indispensable role in the state’s healthcare. They are seen as 'volunteers' and…
▶24-Mar-2025
While fare-free schemes for urban public transport ease financial barriers on mobility, their real impact is in empowering women through better city access. An…
▶16-Feb-2025
Chhattisgarh’s stray cattle problem is enormous. While cattle shelters may prove useful in the interim, a long-term plan to make livestock economically viable…
▶19-Feb-2025
Given the high degree of informality in the Indian economy, national employment surveys have drawn up complex instructions to capture all those who work. This…
▶10-Feb-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
Propaganda films in India which project the viewpoint of the current ruling dispensation are here to stay. In the coming years, they are likely to become even…
▶10-Dec-2024
A tribute to IG Patel, once Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and many other things: senior official in the Ministry of Finance, official in the IMF and…
▶28-Nov-2024
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Letters
Appointment Procedures
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
'Indian' systems of Psychology
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
Sidestepping local bodies
This is a useful article where a lot of thought has gone into delineating what can be done to assuage the fears of the Southern states that there will be a…
▶26-Feb-2025
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai
More on AK Bagchi
Achin Chakraborty has written a splendid article about Amiya Kumar Bagchi from his vantage point of a chair and earlier as Director of the Institute of…
▶16-Dec-2024
Kumaraswamy Velupillai
How India became a 'rising power', Delhi's free bus scheme, Marginalising minorities, and much more
NITI Aayog has Failed, How Hinduism Dealt with British Colonialism, Punishing Universities by Interfering with VC Appointments, and more
Strengthening India's health system, Global climate action at COP29, Gandhi's intimate friend, and more
Redesigning Reservations, Feminisation of Public Employment in India, The Split that Forged an Alliance, and more