IMPRI Desk

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  • Joined: August 6, 2023
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From Bridges to Bureaucracy:Policy Failure and the Crisis of Accountability in India

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How many stampedes need to occur, bridges need to collapse, fires need to devastate public places, cities need to get flooded for the nation to act to reform the crippled and crippling systems? Adverse events occur with such regularity that the public accepts them with resignation and cynicism. Many suffer silently, believing that it is God ordained fate. And, the well-off accept that they cannot insulate themselves from these uncivilised living conditions in spite of their wealth.

From Labubu to Luxury: What a Plush Toy Reveals About China’s Consumer Transformation

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Singer Madonna recently celebrated her 67th birthday, and her birthday cake came in the form of a giant Labubu toy. This signals, if anyone had anymore doubts on the score, the arrival of this stuffed toy from China as an icon of contemporary popular culture. And that, in turn, attests to a structural change in the Chinese economy, bringing it in the league of rich world economies, even if China’s per capita income is still that of a middle-income economy, albeit towards the upper end of that income range.

Reincarnation of the Dalai Lama: A Struggle for Tibet’s Soul

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As the 14th Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday on July 6, all eyes are on his expected announcement on his reincarnation. He, himself, stated that the 15th Dalai Lama would be found in the ‘free world’. China, which ‘liberated’ Tibet in 1951 with a military invasion, on the other hand, declared its intention to select the next Dalai Lama through a ‘golden urn’ lottery process.

Global South’s leadership: Complicit silence or powerless witness to imperialism?

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The bombing of Iran represents the return of old-style imperialism, making the point that might is right with the biggest bang possible without exploding an atomic bomb. Which cat got the tongue of India, leader of the Global South, when the US bombed Iran? Why did the tongue of India, leader of the BRICS, turn mute, when the world called on Israel, at the UN, to end its genocide in Gaza? Cat, Cat burning bright, in the forests of Mt Zion and Washington DC, why this appetite for India’s respect among nations?

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