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Growth needs steps beyond reforms

While the reform agenda must continue, social cohesion and equity considerations must be guaranteed

Students are on their way to school in Shimla on August 9, 2021 after schools were re-opened for senior classes.

Squaring up to India’s education emergency

Sajitha Bashir Anvar Sadath

A healthy ‘White Paper’ beginning

Praveen Chakravarty Tamil Nadu’s analysis of its financial situation is erudite and honest and could help steer the State back on track

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. File

The construct behind the ‘Shining U.P.’ card

Vidya Subrahmaniam Uttar Pradesh’s ‘status’ as India’s top State is in contradiction of evidence and felt experiences.

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Growth needs steps beyond reforms

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Squaring up to India’s education emergency

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A healthy ‘White Paper’ beginning

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The construct behind the ‘Shining U.P.’ card

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Saudi Arabia, Iran and the possibilities of détente

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The looking glass of history in Afghanistan

India’s schoolchildren need their childhood back

The country needs to stop asking whether schools are safe and start acknowledging that in-person school is essential

A guide to resolving the Assam-Mizoram issue

Historical knowledge, sensitivity and an accommodative spirit need to accompany any dialogue and negotiation

A grand tax bargain in danger of coming apart

A Goods and Services Tax version 2.0 may have to be designed soon given the flaws in the existing structure,

A language ladder for an education roadblock

The dreams of many Indian students seeking to pursue professional courses in their mother tongue can be realised

Poverty in India is on the rise again

In the absence of CES data, the Periodic Labour Force Survey shows a rise in the absolute number of the poor

Fathoming serosurvey data, with caution

The data from the ICMR’s Fourth National Seroprevalence Survey have clear implications for the situation in India today

A cycle of low growth, higher inflation

Unless policy action ensures higher demand and growth, India will continue on the path of a K-shaped recovery

The draw of space and nuclear technologies

It remains to be seen whether the new ventures of Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates will strike a chord and benefit mankind

Visualising the Himalaya with other coordinates

Looking at it only through the prism of geopolitics and security concerns ignores its other crucial frameworks

The long road to winning the battle against trafficking

Anti-trafficking policy exists in India, but where the system is found lacking is in the implementation of the laws

The wings of Pegasus, the epoch of cyberweapons

With their use not only during a conflict but even during peacetime, matters have reached a tipping point

Japanese education spells holistic development

It begins from scratch with elementary schools playing a vital role in trying to create mindful and responsible citizens

A judgment that must be taken in the right spirit

The striking down of the 97th Amendment is a reminder that the power to regulate cooperatives must stay with States

Needed, a more unified Asian voice for Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s future will impact Central Asia and South Asia more than the distant global powers involved with it now

Weighing down the private unaided college teacher

As a survey in Tamil Nadu shows, the working conditions, welfare of teachers may have only worsened in the pandemic

Evaluating India’s options in Afghanistan

With the West done with Afghanistan, New Delhi needs to adopt a layered approach in finding a political solution

Joining the dots in the second coming of Pegasus

This time, Pegasus shines a light on the Government for civil society to see it as a clear accountable entity

Getting India’s military convergence formula right

For genuine military jointness, a blending of minds and tailor-made solutions are critical

A serosurvey template for the whole of India

The Ahmedabad case study is ideal to help track the threshold for herd immunity and aid evidence-based policymaking

The direction that the National Curriculum Framework needs to take

Shaping a National Curriculum Framework using only the National Education Policy will be shortsighted

The diminishing status of the Chinese worker

The centenary of the Communist Party of China is a chance to look at the status and role of the working class

India must directly engage with Taliban 2.0

The time for hesitant, backchannel parleys is over and New Delhi has to begin ‘open talks’ as it is a strategic necessity

A cardinal omission in the COVID-19 package

The Government’s COVID-19 health package II again overlooks the need for and availability of health human resources

Pegasus is India’s Watergate moment

Intelligence gathering needs to be professionalised, parliamentary oversight introduced, and liberties and law protected

The crisis ahead, from learning loss to resumption

If schools revert to business as usual, India has to be prepared to confront a disaster in educational outcomes

A new chapter in Nepal’s quest for political stability

The Supreme Court order offers some respite amidst the political uncertainty, with lessons for Indian diplomacy too

A ‘tolerant’ India can be majoritarian

Mere toleration or empirical plurality of cultures is not the same as a conscious democratic project of multiculturalism

India needs a renewed health-care system

The new Health Minister needs to focus on the core lessons from the pandemic and rebuild trust in public health

Interference an investigating officer can do without

Growing instances of judicial interference in an investigation are not only undesirable but also not sanctioned by law

A strong Indian state must be humane too

Having an audit system to review cases such as Fr. Stan Swamy’s will also help reassure international liberal opinion

Five years later, Brexit continues to divide

The Brexiteers who forecast a clean break with the European Union underestimated many key issues

Making welfare conditional is a stamp of coercion

A simple reading of U.P.’s draft population control law is that it will grossly impinge on the right to reproductive freedom

Framing the legislation, forgetting the transparency

India, it appears, is charting a regulatory framework without discussion and openness, and with government overreach

The upcoming crisis in Indian federalism

The national compact has to be reimagined so that post 2026, the most successful States are not punished politically

Decoding the political battle for Uttar Pradesh

If the underpinnings of the BJP’s 2017 mandate were contextual rather than absolute, the party could be dislodged

Shaping a trilateral as Rome looks to the Indo-Pacific

In the pushback against China, strategic cooperation between India, Italy and Japan can ensure a free Indo-Pacific

A Kerala model for an anti-discrimination law

If enacted this law will be the largest expansion of civil rights in the State, and can be emulated by the rest of India

In defence of India’s noisy democracy

In the current moment, it is important to be clear why comparisons with China are not only specious but also dangerous

Troubling prospects in Afghanistan

As the reality of the U.S. withdrawal takes hold, the future will depend on Taliban-Kabul dynamics and Pakistan’s role

Darkness at noon, felled by the judiciary

Posterity will blame the judiciary for the incarceration and unfortunate death of Father Stan Swamy

Fresh stirrings on federalism as a new politics

There are factors, which if harnessed well, that can create a political moment for a principled politics of federalism

A virus, theories of origin, and a place for science

Polarisation on political lines will only create more hurdles in finding clear answers to the source of SARS-CoV-2

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