The India Forum
The Sitaram Yechury Foundation invites entries from undergraduate and postgraduate students from across India to submit abstracts of essays on the broad theme, "Imperialism in the Present Age". Eight selected authors will be invited to make presentations at a day-long programme in Kolkata on November 22, 2026. The abstracts should be emailed to syfessays@gmail.com by Monday October 26, 2026. More details can be found here.
Arguments about violence against Northeastern people in Indian cities tend to observe that the state keeps no centralised record of such violence, and conclude…
▶07-Oct-2026
A response to a critique of the estimates of gross value-added in the manufacturing sector finds that while the underlying data hold up reasonably well, there…
▶21-Sep-2026
‘Precisely because India remains a democracy, developments that increase the institutional cost of removing incumbents deserve attention before, rather than…
▶20-Sep-2026
Nepal’s devastating floods reopen the question of who bears responsibility for climate-change induced crises and who pays.
▶24-Sep-2026
If India wants to be a technology leader rather than a technology assembler, advanced materials and the raw inputs that go into them have to be treated as a…
▶18-Sep-2026
As the latest UNEP reports point out, we will blow past 1.5°C in global temperature rise. To deal with that, we must prioritise solutions that work, rather…
▶16-Sep-2026
Quantum technologies hold out the promise of reshaping computation, and improving secure communication and precision measurement. But in spite of decades of…
▶01-Jul-2026
As a strong El Niño evolves in 2026 alongside climate change, India’s monsoon is bringing uneven rainfall, compounding hot-dry extremes. This is…
▶26-Aug-2026
Anne Carson’s radical approach to poetry and language challenges conventional literary boundaries. By blending classical scholarship, fragmented forms and…
▶12-Oct-2026
Odisha’s beaches face unregulated tourism pressures degrading fragile ecosystems, evident in declining ghost crab populations and rising litter. Without…
▶14-Aug-2026
"Awards are now routinely given to individuals and works that do undisguised PR for this government, or distort history, or further majoritarianism, while…
▶03-Aug-2026
Kolkata's dense I LOVE signage reflects an urban economy fuelled by competitive city branding on the one hand and by municipal populism on the other.
▶28-May-2026
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Letters
A Response to the Critique
Gulab Singh’s (GS) comment is a welcome addition to the ongoing public discussion on the new GDP series. In our article (“How Credible are India’s New…
▶21-Sep-2026
Jatinder S Bedi and R. Nagaraj
India’s Democratic Resilience: A Rejoinder
Rahul Mukherji and Jai Prasad’s article, “India’s Democratic Resilience in a Majoritarian Setting”, offers us an opportunity to revisit a set of basic…
▶22-Sep-2026
Hilal Ahmad, KREA University
Could the Court Have Ruled Otherwise?
This is an interesting piece, but I am not sure who is the intended audience. Is it an analysis of the judgment and the use of judicial powers of the Supreme…
▶25-Aug-2026
Abhineet Maurya
Not a Problem, But an Asset
This is an excellent article. My only wish is that someone will take note of it and act on it.
I was Minister of Agriculture in South Australia and have…
▶29-Aug-2026
Brian Chatterton
India's democratic resilience in a majoritarian setting, What ails public transport in Delhi, and more
Education in an unequal society, Citizens, suspects, and the portable border, Who belongs or not to the SC and ST, and more
The students' demand for accountability, Vijay’s boy-man image, The failed promise of higher education, and more
The racialisation of British Sikhs, UN report on Palestinian children, Arms markets across the world, and more.
Anatomy of India's new regime, Insolvency and bankruptcy code, The sacred river and the secular failure, and much more