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Governance

Environment & EnergyGovernance

Green on Paper, Costly in Practice: The Truth About India’s Ethanol Mission

The Green Mirage of Ethanol Blending India’s ethanol blending programme is sold as climate action and a foreign-exchange saviour. A closer look at...

GovernanceSpecial Report

DPDP: The Agency Law That Puts You in Control of Your Digital Life

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act is being read as a privacy law. Read as a law about agency, about who controls personal...

ANALYSISGovernance

The Grey Tsunami: Is India Prepared to Care for Its Elders?

India is on the verge of a historic demographic transformation. While the country currently has about 15.7 crore people aged 60 and above,...

ANALYSISUrban Environment

Free the Tree

Before the First Rains Fall India is about to plant millions of trees. Most of them will die. As the monsoon draws near...

ControversyGovernance

Population, Power and the Republic

Why India must resist weighted representation? As India heads toward a historic delimitation exercise, a deeper constitutional struggle is unfolding: should political power...

Governance

Government Schemes Fail at the Last Mile?

India funds large-scale welfare programmes — yet benefits rarely reach the people they’re meant for. India funds large-scale welfare programmes, but audit reports...

Governance

The Great Labour Reset: Hire, Fire, and Forget !

For over seventy years, India’s labour laws have promised security but delivered it to barely ten percent of the workforce. The Four Labour...

EconomyGovernance

When protection becomes a product, the insured become the hunted

When Parliament passed the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025—with Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi both absent...

GovernanceTalk Time

Digital evolution must remain human-centric: Antonio Grasso

For India, with its diversity of conditions and multiple layers of development, the validity of this approach is clear: AI can be a...

GovernanceTalk Time

Treat cybersecurity as a business and cultural matter, not just a technical one: Jean-Christophe Gaillard

Organisations, especially the Indian military and government, must begin preparation now rather than wait until urgency forces action. It is a matter of...