Essay
Gurgaon's failing infrastructure shows there is no alternative to governments taking a central role in building sustainable and inclusive cities.
▶17-Sep-2025
In summer, street vendors and gig workers in Hyderabad face searing heat during the day and restless nights in poorly cooled homes. Understanding how these…
▶02-Sep-2025
Indian philanthropists are publicly advocating deregulation and decriminalisation of certain laws, which could aid special interests, and weaken protections…
▶14-Aug-2025
Punjab’s urban transformation policy must address critical gaps in the current land pooling policy which overlooks the rights of landless and Dalits. Equitable…
▶01-Aug-2025
The 2025 Economics Nobel for explaining how innovation fuels growth was half-a-century in the making, in the process reimagining the mechanics of progress…
▶28-Oct-2025
Examining the history, varieties, and outcomes of genetically modified crops in India, this analysis notes that debates on GMOs are not always well-informed.…
▶20-Oct-2025
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed India’s growing diabetes crisis and its deadly link to mucormycosis. This preventable event reflected deeper issues—poor urban…
▶02-Jul-2025
Frugal science expands traditional science by prioritising inclusion and practical capability over cost. But structural biases and lack of institutional…
▶16-Jul-2025
Graphic narratives on Kashmiris open a way to reimagine Kashmir and its people, and think about History writ large.
▶15-Sep-2025
The “Ancient India” exhibition now on show at the British Museum in London is merely the flipside, or perhaps even an implicit legitimation, of the trauma…
▶09-Sep-2025
The Puri Jagannath temple’s organic sanctity has been eroded by commercialisation, turning tradition into spectacle and control. Devotion has been reduced to…
▶25-Aug-2025
A researcher becomes a ‘partner’ in a food delivery app for two months. What he experiences and learns from his fellow workers is that in the underbelly of…
▶28-Jul-2025
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Letters
Managing Disruption
I would like to congratulate Asoka Kumar for his wonderful piece on the Algorithmic Empire.
I learnt a great deal from the article and the author provides…
▶29-Sep-2025
Rohan Dsouza Kyoto
The Mahabharata: A Reflection of Our Times
Pradeep Bhargava has written a very illuminating article `Reclaiming Arjuna from a century of Obedience'.
Of all the five Pandava brothers, …
▶30-Sep-2025
Sumanta Banerjee
Insights into Gig Work
This is to express my immense appreciation of the insights provided by the scholar Kasim Saiyyad on gig work.
By becoming a 'delivery partner' himself, he…
▶28-Jul-2025
Padmini Swaminathan
Academic Publication: Reflect and Act
This was a compelling read. The author should be admired and congratulated for writing the article. Such pieces need to be widely and lead to reflection and…
▶22-Jul-2025
Vinay Sankar
Reclaiming Arjuna, When injustice prevails, Countering witch-hunts, Naming and equality, and more
When the state always doubts your identity, Behind India's medical education woes, and more
Against publication; The enduring power of Pax Americana; Explaining electoral roll revision; and more.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement: Why We Need It, When Machines Imagine, J&K Pays the Price for a War with No End, and more
Dehumanisation in a time of war, Strategic thinking and the nuclear garden path, The Indus water wars, and more