Category Insights

Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Manufacture and Other Operations in Warehouse Regulations (MOOWR): Boosting or Hindering Make-in-India?

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Economy and Infrastructure, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

If you have not heard of MOOWR, and think the term probably refers to a cow’s moo
turning into a growl in protest against the abuse she is being subjected to in the Indian
political discourse, you can be excused. The MOOWR in question, however, is not
anything remotely bovine or pastoral. It is a policy initiative by the government meant to
help the noble cause of Make-in-India, which ends up ignobly harming the project of
indigenous manufacture.

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
May 12, 2026

How Jyotiba Phule gave the Foundations of Viksit Bharat

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Social Sector

Aditi NarayaniNikhil Adsule “I dedicate this small book to the good people of the United States… as a token of admiration for their noble, disinterested, and self-sacrificing devotion in the cause of Negro slavery.” The above quote is taken from Jyotiba…

IMPRI Desk
May 11, 2026

Opposition deficit, rather than BJP triumph, is the message

Insights, Governance and Law

Some claim the state assembly election results mark a triumph for the Modi-Shah brand of politics. But is it, really a Hindutva wave?

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
May 11, 2026

Survival sense in the time of war

Insights

If the war does not end soon or spreads, the world could face a recession. The adverse impact on India is increasing by the day

IMPRI Desk and Arun Kumar
May 10, 2026

China’s Balancing Act Grows Harder Amid U.S. Iran Policy Reversals

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

China’s carefully crafted, if contradictory, policy on the current conflict in Iran is coming under increasing strain, threatening to derail its trade, energy flows, its relations with the United States and the Gulf countries, and its ambitions to invade Taiwan.

IMPRI Desk and Srikanth Kondapalli
May 10, 2026

India Needs State-Backed AI Capacity, Not Mythmaking

Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Center for ICT for Development, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, Generation Alpha Data Centre, Insights, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Policy Update, Science and Technology

Anthropic, the US AI giant that seeks to differentiate itself from other AI firms as being the champion of ethics and responsibility, has restricted initial access to its new powerful AI model-cum-agent, Mythos, to 40 organisations. All of them, except British AI Security Institute, are American. Reason for the restricted access? Mythos is so powerful that it can detect hidden vulnerabilities in software systems. If hackers get their hands on it, they could wreak havoc.

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
May 10, 2026

Iran Is Exposing the Limits of American Power

Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Insights, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Policy Update

As the negotiations between Iran and the United States mediated by Oman were giving some hope to avert the war, on February 28, US President Donald Trump got played by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and followed the same playbook as June 2025 and launched decapitating attacks on Iran and its leadership, crossing the final redline by killing Ayatollah Khamenei and top military brass.

IMPRI Desk and Anil Trigunayat
May 10, 2026