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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

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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