Aravind Unni and Tikender Singh Panwar The latest avatar of the mission lacks an on-ground understanding of waste management in its early conceptualisation, builds castles on the failures of the SBM 1. On October 1, a day before Gandhi Jayanti, Prime…
74 years since independence, and India is still struggling tooth and nail to do away with caste based and gender violence. But the progress has been dismally sluggish and dissatisfactory. On that note of thought, the Gender Impact Studies, IMPRI…
T K Arun The most significant political development of the week in India was Mamata Banerjee’s thundering victory in the Bhabanipur by-poll, cementing not just her position as chief minister of West Bengal (she had to become an MLA within…
Anil Trigunayat Friendships are always tested and often events, and incidents become the litmus test of their credibility and dependability especially in the domain of international relations when the verbosity of the diplomatese confronts the real politic. India and Russia…
Vibhuti Patel Kamla Bhasin has left us. Her passing has caused an irreparable loss to the feminist movement and One Billion Rising Movement in Asia. Kamladi, as she was popularly known, lives in her songs, verses, stories, speeches, publications in…
Anil Trigunayat Arab Spring (2010) may have failed in some respects after forcing the removal of Mubarak and Gaddafi as all the countries including Ben Ali’s Tunisia continue to go through the political churn but it had shown the way…