Category Centres

English Without Privilege: Towards Linguistic Equality in India

Insights, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for Work and Welfare, Commentary, IMPRI Research, Journal Articles, Research, Social Sector

Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that a day would come when those who speak in English would hang their heads in shame has met with the predictable responses pointing out English's utility as an essential link language, within India and for the globalizing world, as the language of knowledge acquisition, and as a competitive edge for India over China. Some have pointed out that English is no longer a foreign tongue; Indians have evolved an Indian version of English that is all our own.

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
July 23, 2025

Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation (PRAGATI) 2.0 : Progress and Prospects, 2025

Policy Update, Center for ICT for Development, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Science and Technology

In March 2015, the government of India launched the PRAGATI — Proactive Governance and Timely Implementation scheme which is a digital platform that fast-track the execution of high-priority government projects and resolve inter-departmental bottlenecks through direct intervention from the Prime Minister’s Office.

IMPRI Desk
July 23, 2025

India at the Frontiers of Climate and Ocean Research: Indian Scientific Expeditions to the Southern Ocean (ISESO)

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, IMPRI Research, Policy Briefs, Policy Update, Research, Thematic Areas

The Southern Ocean is the broad ocean that encircles the Antarctic continent. It is the second-smallest of the five oceans, larger than the Arctic Ocean but smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. The Southern Ocean covers approximately 21.96 million square kilometers and is generally defined as lying south of 60°S latitude.

IMPRI Desk
July 23, 2025

The Collapse of the Nuclear Order

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, International Relations and Strategic Studies

Growing temptations to launch pre-emptive strikes against adversary’s nuclear facilities.

IMPRI Desk, Harsh V Pant and Kartik Bommakanti
July 23, 2025

eTaal – Electronic Transaction Aggregation and Analysis Layer – 2013

Policy Update, Center for ICT for Development, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation

eTaal (Electronic Transaction Aggregation & Analysis Layer) is an initiative by the Government of India, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

IMPRI Desk
July 23, 2025

The Hague NATO Summit 2025: Trump’s U-Turn and the Rise of a New Defence Order

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Conference, Meeting

For anyone who is piqued by US President Donald Trump’s deceptive diplomacy, where ‘strategic ambiguity’ is a policy choice, his volte face on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) offers key insights. During the recently-held NATO summit in The Hague, perhaps the biggest development was Trump’s metamorphosed views that NATO remains relevant for the US.

IMPRI Desk and Harsh V Pant
July 22, 2025

India’s Research & Development Crisis: Why Innovation Needs Investment, Not Loans

Insights, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Journal Articles, Public Finances and Macroeconomics, Research

TK Arun The government’s new Research, Development and Innovation scheme is half-hearted hope masquerading as policy. True, it talks big money: Rs 1 trillion, for private sector R&D, which, at present, is vanishingly small, and certainly needs a policy-induced boost.…

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
July 20, 2025