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One Nation, Many Laws: 75 Years of India’s Uniform Civil Code

For seventy-five years, a single sentence in the Indian Constitution has sat quietly in a corner, waiting. In the last two years, four...

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Governance from the Inside: What It Takes to Make Reform Work

A rare insider’s account of governance, revealing the gap between policy design and ground-level execution through the experiences and reflections of senior civil...

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Restructure, Rebrand, Repeat: The Politics of Institutional Decay

In a previous piece for this publication, I examined why compliance dashboards fail enterprise boards — the essence of the argument being that...

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Can Citizens See How Government Decides?

From ration shops to AI procurement: making Indian public decisions understandable, challengeable and correctable EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. India does not need every citizen to...

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Railways – Sarkar or Vyapar ?

WORKING in the Modi government is definitely a different experience. There are no undue pressures or threats, no expectations of anything other than...

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AFSPA – A law that needs to go

While exercising draconian powers there is bound to be misuse. In a July 2016 verdict, the Supreme Court ripped open the cloak of...

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A case of an FIR and an award

IT is ironical that on the eve of the 72nd Indian Independence Day, the Supreme Court of India should be witness to hearing...

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Development Agenda for New India 2022

THE NITI Aayog was expected to introduce the draft development agenda for New India 2022 at the June 17 meeting of its Governing...

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Time to cash in

INDIA is undergoing a period of prodigious change, things are being looked at from a whole new perspective and rural India, is today,...

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UN against illicit tobacco trade

Illicit cigarette smuggling has over the years created a multitude of problems for India. It negatively impacts financial health resulting from tax arbitrage;...