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IMPRI, a startup research think tank, is a platform for pro-active, independent, non-partisan and policy-based research. It contributes to debates and deliberations for action-based solutions to a host of strategic issues. IMPRI is committed to democracy, mobilization and community building.
  • Joined: October 30, 2020
  • Articles: 2402

Infrastructuring the City: Trajectories of Violence

There is Structural violence that is inherent in our society on account of infrastructure projects worldwide. IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute as part of its series #CityConversations organized a lecture with Dr. Deljana Iossifova titled Infrastructuring the City: Trajectories of Violence. Dr. Deljana Iossifova is a Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies and Director, Confucius Institute, University of Manchester United Kingdom. She is also the Chair of the Urban Studies Foundation.

Three Weeks Nation-wide & Impactful Lockdown

New cases of Corona appear to be intimidating. India has become the new 'hot spot' of Covid-19, overtaking both Brazil (66,176 daily average cases) and USA (65,624 daily average cases). For the first time in the country, over 2.5 lakh new cases of infection were reported on Sunday. This is a lamentable situation, but there is nothing to panic at the moment. For the second wave of Covid-19, need of the hour remains a 3 week long nationwide lockdown.

तीन हफ्ते का देशव्यापी और प्रभावशाली लॉकडाउन आज की जरूरत

अरुण कुमार देश में कोरोना की दूसरी लहर बेलगाम हो गई है। रोजाना के नए मामले 2.61 लाख का आंकड़ा पार कर चुके हैं। कई बडे़ शहरों में लॉकडाउन जैसी कड़ाई भी शुरू हो गई है। छत्तीसगढ़, महाराष्ट्र जैसे राज्यों…

Destroying Academic Autonomy

IIMC faculty are protesting the new code of conduct being imposed on them. Under the new rules there can be no protest or criticism, or petitions to higher authorities. With this, what autonomy will the faculty be left with? Delhi University faculties are currently discussing the implementation of the New Education Policies (NEP), one of whose key aspects is autonomy in institutions of higher learning. The key concern is if there is a systematic attempt to destroy academic autonomy?

Re-Imagining The Parliament: Annihilating Caste by 1111

Should we be content with the fact that Dr. Ambedkar has been posthumously awarded the ‘Bharat Ratna’ and that his portrait is hung on the wall of the Parliament? In fact what Dr. Ambedkar desired was the annihilation of Caste, and least his glorification. Has Dr. Ambedkar’s dream fulfilled? The article makes the argument to Re-Imagining The Parliament to annihilate caste via the 1111 campaign.

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