Navigating Challenges: Immigration, Abortion, and Their Effects on U.S. Growth
Immigration has been a growth driver. Liberal abortion laws have led to reduced crime rates over time.
Category Center for Human Dignity and Development
Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code, 2020: Strengthening Workplace Protections
The Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions (OSHWC) Code, 2020, is a significant reform in India’s labour laws, aiming to simplify and consolidate workplace regulations.
From Votes to Voices: Observing International Democracy Day on 15th September
The International Day of Democracy is celebrated worldwide on 15 September each year. It was established through a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007. It encourages governments to strengthen and consolidate democracy.
Kerala’s Mirror of Misogyny: The Hema Committee’s Revelations
Kerala's communists and the culture they championed educated women and ended gross discrimination against them, but this fell far short of realised gender parity
Reservation and Representation: The Challenge of Hegemony in UPSC Lateral Entry
The representation of the ST and SC communities in bureaucracy is already abysmal. Reservation is not just about equitable and redistributive justice — it is also a challenge to monopolies of power
Beyond the Death Penalty: Addressing the Root Causes of Violence Against Women
Death penalty for rape has been on the table since the legal change in the wake of the Nirbhaya rape and murder in 2012; it has not discouraged crimes against women
India 2047: A Blueprint for Prosperity, Equality, and Innovation Empowering the Bold New Citizens of Viksit Bharat
By 2047, citizens of a prosperous India would be creative, collaborative, and liberated, embracing a modernity shaped by historical and cultural richness. What is living in the tradition would be celebrated and carried forward, what is rotten would be discarded
Thou shalt develop and grow rich, at least by the centenary of Independence. If this commandment were somehow heeded, and India were to become a high-income country, at least, by 2047, what would be the nature of a citizen of that future, prosperous India?
By the World Bank’s definition, a high-income country is defined by achieving a gross national income per capita of $13,846 or more. The trouble with average incomes is that a high level does not guarantee a comfortable standard of living for the majority: if you have highly unequal distribution of income, a super-rich minority could coexist, albeit in heavily guarded, gated communities, with a disgruntled mass of unemployed and underemployed people, with a per capita income that flatters to deceive. Think Apartheid South Africa.