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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Return of Caste-Based Politics in Bihar

Chandrachur Singh In the landscape of India’s federal politics, the state of Bihar is an outlier of sorts. One of the most politically conscious states, Bihar is also the least developed on the parameters of the human development index. The…

Resilience: Key to Winning Farmers’ Trust

A. Amarender Reddy Overall, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana needs to factor in the diversity of the states. Over the past few years, the PMFBY has improved in many respects, depending on past experience and requests from states such as…

Towards the Right Model of City Transformation

Tikender Singh Panwar 75 years of the history of modern India is too short a period for judging the development model of a country, particularly its model of city governance. Both development and governance models are inherently interlinked. However, if we…

Democracy Deficit : Dalit boy killed for drinking water from pot and stabbing of Rushdie

The assaults on Salman Rushdie and the Rajasthan Dalit boy both stem from democracy deficit.

Two recent assaults, the attempted killing of Salman Rushdie in a New York town, and the killing of Indra, a small boy in a Rajasthan village, for daring to drink from his school master’s water pot, point to deep failings of Indian democracy, without addressing which Indians cannot hope to be truly free.

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