COVID-19: A viral change in the regime

The pandemic has brought out not only many socio-economic and political fault lines in global governance, but also in individual countries

पंचायतों पर डोरे डालने के निहितार्थ

पंचायती राज व्यवस्था अपने 25वें साल में है। विकास का महत्वपूर्ण यंत्र बनने के कारण ये सभी दलों को आकर्षित कर रही है। 

Indian lessons for Dilma Rousseff

Brazil's handling of its social programmes amidst a political crisis will have immense ramifications

The panchayat outrage

It was a vote for self-governance, not self-determination. No panchayat election in the country ever created as much hype as that of Jammu and …

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

Rules of engagement

Thirty years on, what does the Narmada Bachao Andolan teach us?

American Dream’s dark side: There is chronic poverty in the US

As one sociologist explains, privileged Americans and corporations profit if one deeply poor generation transmits it poverty to the next&…

First lesson in governance for PM Modi: Legislative tapasya (penance) is all about listening to outer world, not inner self

Union government will repeal all 3 controversial farm laws, Modi declares on Gurupurab   

Niti Aayog’s new strategy: A call for growth or acceptance of failure

Celebrating India's 75th year of Independence is a matter of pride, but achieving a "New India" needs more than a textual articulation

Indira, Manmohan, Modi: Why all see civil society with suspicion

The arrests of activists and rights campaigners is set to further dip the relationship between government and the civil society

हंसी के पात्र भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी आंदोलन

लगातार दो शासन काल में जिस पैमाने पर जनता के पैसों की लूट हुई है, उसने भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी मुहिमों को असफल साबित कर दिया ...

Modi and `mass movement'

As Narendra Modi's regime enters its mid-term, it is time to assess: has he turned governance into a mass movement?

Only plans, no integration

India’s poverty: There is no end to Surjit Bhalla’s imagination

The IMF executive director has just declared that India was nearly free of extreme poverty in 2020 and inequality was lowest in 40 years due to …

2021 Cabinet reshuffle: In ministers sacked, there is a message

Amid an ongoing pandemic, a raging conflict over rights activists being targeted by the government and a collapse of the labour market, the exit …

Delhi elections: Populism’s twin faces

In the Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party may have benefitted from strategic voting by people who wanted to retain its agenda of welfare …

क्या हमारे बजट में जन भागीदारी है?

बजट में जन भागीदारी बढ़ाने की सरकारी कोशिशें क्या वाकई कारगर हैं या ये महज औपचारिकता मात्र हैं?  

संसद में 33 प्रतिशत महिलाओं की उपस्थिति 55 साल में होगी

महिला मतदाताओं की बढ़ती संख्या के बावजूद विधानसभाओं में उनकी उपस्थिति बमुश्किल 7 से 8 प्रतिशत है। जबकि संसद में उनकी मौजूदगी महज 11 ...

Walk the village talk

After raising the political profile of village councils, government wants to downsize them

Forest war

Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …

Back To Beginning

Afghanistan, the badland of international politics, faces its toughest challenge: life and peace. Two decades of war, six months of non-stop …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers advice on freebies

The prime minister’s call to the youth to be careful about political parties bribing them with freebies for votes is also a recognition of …

India needs the ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan back

Anti-poverty programmes must be universal, not just on a below or above poverty line matrix

1 करोड़ नौकरियों का नारा, वाजपेयी से मोदी तक

कैसे इस वादे ने इंडिया शाइनिंग अभियान को जन्म दिया और अंततः एनडीए की हार की वजह बना

A new epoch: Human population to peak in 44 years

Global population estimated to touch 9.73 bln in 2064, then decline to 8.79 bln in 36 years