India’s long and uneven experience with spatial industrial policy has made policymakers deeply sceptical of zoning as a development tool. Special Economic Zones (SEZs), rolled out under the...
The proposed higher education Bill, which seeks to establish the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishtan as a single, overarching regulator, marks one of the most consequential institutional reforms in...
Air pollution, measured through the Air Quality Index (AQI), is now one of India’s most persistent public health and economic challenges. While the severity varies across regions —...
Despite starting the 20th century from economic positions comparable to several East Asian economies, India’s development trajectory has diverged sharply. Countries such as China and South Korea built...
Cyclonic disturbances over the North Indian Ocean — covering the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and adjoining land areas — have undergone profound changes over the last...
Film festivals have traditionally functioned as protected spaces for artistic freedom, where even politically sensitive or controversial works are screened without the constraints applied to commercial cinema. That...
At the end of 2025, rare earth elements (REEs) sit at an uneasy crossroads of climate ambition, industrial policy and geopolitics. They are not the most voluminous inputs...
As India moves to implement the labour codes enacted in 2019 and 2020, resistance from trade unions and workers’ organisations has only intensified. While much of the public...
One of the world’s largest rights-based public employment programmes has been dismantled. The “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act”, which for two decades guaranteed rural citizens a...
The past year has underscored how global trade is being reshaped less by multilateral consensus and more by unilateral power and strategic bargaining. From reciprocal tariffs imposed by...
