Verdict 2024: Expectations, Great and Little

After two ‘extraordinary’ elections where Narendra Modi was able to create a charismatic appeal, India has had a ‘normal’ election in which a Ceasarian appeal could not be generated. With a return to coalition government, the Opposition must now press for a greater balance in centre-state relations.▶19-Jun-2024
Partha Chatterjee

July 5, 2024

Verdict 2024, Why government canteens are important, Renaming caste and retaining privilege, and more

Cultural Behaviour and Sanitation Practices

Many practical solutions on sanitation fail because they ignore cultural and social attitudes, and the role of caste. Therefore, promoting behavioural change among all castes and communities in India…
▶03-Jul-2024
Sujit Kumar Mishra, Amiya Kumar Sahoo, Pullanna Vidyapogu, D. Sivakumar

The Spirit Underlying Some Recent Proposals for Redistributive Taxation

In an economy characterised by a massively skewed distribution of resources, resulting in undeserved deprivation for the very many and equally undeserved super-abundance for a very few, surely there…
▶02-Jul-2024
S Subramanian

Decline in India’s Wheat Production: Is Heat Stress in Evidence?

Decline in wheat production over the past two seasons because of rising temperatures has reduced domestic availability.
▶01-Jul-2024
Biswajit Dhar

Why are Government Canteens Important When 80 Crore People Get Free Grains?

Food canteens in cities offer affordable meals to many, especially marginalised groups without cooking facilities such as migrant workers. By enhancing menus, infrastructure, and staff wages, state…
▶01-Jul-2024
Reetika Khera

Chandrashekhar Azad and Dalit Politics in Uttar Pradesh

The Azad Samaj Party represents both a crisis following the fracturing of the Dalit movement and a possible future regeneration under a new Ambedkarite organisation.
▶27-Jun-2024
Sudha Pai

A Forgotten Pioneer of Climate Change Research

Eunice Newton Foote, scientist and women’s rights activist, was the first to posit a connection between atmospheric gases and rising temperatures.
▶26-Jun-2024
G.V. Pavan Kumar

Andhra’s Polls Should Temper Political Hopes from Cash Transfers

The ousted government in Andhra Pradesh had banked heavily on Direct Benefit Transfers to build a political constituency, but the electorate might be asking for development too.
▶20-Jun-2024
Venkateshwarlu K.

Verdict 2024: Expectations, Great and Little

After two ‘extraordinary’ elections where Narendra Modi was able to create a charismatic appeal, India has had a ‘normal’ election in which a Ceasarian appeal could not be generated. With a return to…
▶19-Jun-2024
Partha Chatterjee

Why Indians Should Avoid Loans to Study Abroad

Rising college fee costs mean a growing debt burden for Indian students in North America and the UK, and an excess supply of graduates mean it is much more difficult to get jobs after graduation.
▶18-Jun-2024
Ignatius Chithelen
Book
Book Review

Floating in an Ocean of Laws

Indians displaced across South and Southeast Asia between the 1940s and the 1960s used the law to make claims of the new states emerging from the end of colonialism.
▶17-Jun-2024
Tarangini Sriraman