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Making Space for the Radical: Savitribai Phule’s Satyashodhak Modernity

Aditi Narayani Nikhil Adsule The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of ‘modern’ Marathi literature. In the Marathi play Trutiya Ratna, written by Jotirao Phule, two…

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How Trump’s 2025 Foreign Policy Shift Reorders the Indo-Pacific

The regional order is witnessing a shift as Asian countries hedge their geo-strategic interests against mixed signals from the US on its role as a security assurer by forging new deterrents and ties. India has also deepened its engagement with Southeast Asia, reflecting a proactive approach.

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Selling Survival: What Air and Water Reveal About State Failure

Delhi’s air crisis is not an isolated failure. It is part of a larger civilisational collapse, one where the state has quietly surrendered its most fundamental duty: safeguarding the commons.

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Health at the Crossroads: Public Health in an Era of Global Transition

As 2025 draws to a close, viewed from the window of a public health professional, the year offers a clear reminder that health leadership is not merely about systems, policies, or technologies. It is about trust, continuity, and the courage to make long-term choices amid uncertainty.
The past year tested health systems worldwide. Economic volatility, geopolitical realignments, climate stress, and workforce pressures converged to expose long-standing vulnerabilities. India was not immune. Yet beyond the dominant crisis narratives, India’s health trajectory in 2025 tells a quieter and more consequential story, one of steady progress shaped by public investment, institutional memory, and the everyday work of frontline systems.

Union Budget 2026–27: India’s Budget Masks Jobs And Growth Faultlines

The IMPRI Center for the Study of Finance and Economics (CSFE), Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted an interactive panel discussion on “Indian Economy and Union Budget 2026–27” on February 7, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. IST under IMPRI’s 7th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of Union Budget 2026–27, bringing together leading economists and policy researchers to examine the growth outlook, fiscal strategy, labour-market pressures and structural reforms embedded in the latest Budget.

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Urbanisation Trends in India’s Small Towns

The story so far: India continues to narrate its urban future through the loud vocabulary of megacities. But a quieter and far more consequential transformation is unfolding. Of India’s nearly 9,000 census and statutory towns, barely 500 qualify as large cities. The overwhelming majority are small towns, with populations below 1,00,000. This proliferation of small towns is a structural product of India’s capitalist development — and of its crisis.

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