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The Government of India's crèche scheme, now renamed as Palna, needs revised guidelines and procedures. This analysis questions its sustainability and…
▶25-Oct-2024
Before the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, the permanent five members of the UN Security Council shielded their allies from censure. Since R2P, they…
▶07-Oct-2024
While Kamala Harris’s mother emigrated to the U.S. from Tamil Nadu, Usha Vance’s parents are immigrants from Andhra Pradesh.
▶17-Sep-2024
Voters see the Jammu and Kashmir elections as a significant political development towards resolving local governance issues, rather than as an instrument for…
▶10-Sep-2024
A recent genome study of elephants in India sheds new light on their population, divergence, and history. The study identifies five distinct genetic…
▶04-Nov-2024
Overtourism is often used as a buzzword. For it to remain a useful concept in managing tourist destinations, there needs to be an agreed-upon method for…
▶06-Oct-2024
'Gumrah', a show that aired in the early 2010s, brought to television the worries and optimism about adolescents in the post-Liberalisation decades.…
▶11-Oct-2024
Jawaharlal Nehru’s writings show a complex thinker who saw science as a tool for social change, not just an enemy of religion. He sought a balance between…
▶30-Sep-2024
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Letters
Without solutions
This article about biases among healthcare workers in Kerala impeding access to abortion is an eye-opener for several reasons, not least for the fact that it…
▶20-Aug-2024
Padmini Swaminathan Chennai
Breaking Patriarchy
This is a very informative and illuminating analysis of the Rajasthan programme. Though the programme is not conceptualised as 'mostly for women ', this…
▶24-Jul-2024
Padmini Swaminathan, Chennai
Rajasthan’s Urban Employment Guarantee needs Greater Attention
The article “A Field Study of Rajasthan’s Urban Employment Guarantee Programme” is an important study documenting the working of the IRGY programme and its…
▶24-Jul-2024
Krishna Priya Choragudi , PhD Student, IIT Delhi
Sample design
The hypothetical example given in the article while commenting on the sampling methodology gives the example of a block with 50,000 households from which 18…
▶09-Jul-2024
PC Mohanan, Kozhikode
Redesigning Reservations: How Heterogeneous are the Scheduled Castes?, Feminisation of Public Employment in India, The Split that Forged an Alliance, and more
Where did Covid come from?, Motherhood and working women, Nuclear isn't the solution, and much more
Demographic Change, the North-South Divide and Internal Migration in India; Muslim Legislative Representation in India; Budget 2024 and India’s Macroeconomic Challenges; and more
The Congress in a New Ideological Avatar, Hopelessness and Despair in Bihar, Electoral Bonds, Incumbency Advantage, and Concentration of Political Power, and more
Verdict 2024, Why government canteens are important, Renaming caste and retaining privilege, and more