IMPRI Team Discussing the book on the serendipity mindset and the importance of planning, educating, and training people to meet each other and finding things in common, the #IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy…
Chintamani Mahapatra The singular target of the Quad summit was evidently to check the Chinese unilateralism in its political, strategic, and economic behavior. Run by the Communist Party of China, flushed with wealth and imbibed with a determination to mold…
Manish Thakre, Farrukh Shah As per UN estimates, the urban population of India will be 52.8 per cent by 2050. Every fourth child in India (27.4 per cent) lives in urban areas. Children (0-18) are one of the vulnerable groups…
Ashish Kothari “India commits to become net-zero by 2070”, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the start of the ongoing 26th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change. Mr. Modi also announced four other elements of…
Manoj Mishra Agog with the frothy Yamuna in Delhi, it is as if the first time that media has discovered it. The excitement has raised manifold with political blame game at a high pitch amidst the backdrop of visuals of…
It’s been clear for some time now that the global multilateral order is not fit for its purpose. The covid pandemic has only made the world more aware of the real-time consequences of this gradual decay. The United Nations Security Council has faced a lot of flak for not representing today’s international power realities and for not being able to shape the global discourse on the changing nature of security. For several decades now, the world has been debating and discussing the need for reforms in the UNSC, but to no avail. Leaderships in nations like India seem to have given up and are now putting the onus on the UN to reform itself, if its credibility is to survive.