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Why Andhra Pradesh’s New Economic Zones Are Not Another SEZ Experiment

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...

December 26, 2025

A Single Regulator for Higher Education: Reform, Risks and the Autonomy Question

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...

December 26, 2025

Why India’s Air Pollution Problem Persists — and Why Growth Isn’t the Real Obstacle

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 —...

December 26, 2025

Why India Missed the Manufacturing Bus: Revisiting the ‘Dutch Disease’ Argument

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...

December 26, 2025

How Cyclones Over the North Indian Ocean Have Changed — and Why the Risk Is Growing

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...

December 26, 2025

Why the Centre’s Censor Intervention at IFFK Has Triggered a Cultural Flashpoint

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...

December 26, 2025

Rare Earths, Magnets and the Green Transition: Why India Is Betting on the Bottleneck

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...

December 26, 2025

Why India’s New Labour Codes Could Deepen Insecurity for Unorganised Workers

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...

December 26, 2025

From Right to Discretion: What the Repeal of MGNREGA Signals for India’s Welfare State

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...

December 26, 2025

Global Trade in 2025: Tariffs, Uncertainty, and the Search for New Rules

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...

December 26, 2025

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