India’s Unwise Neglect of the Elderly
The problems being faced today by the elderly, particularly relating to their health, housing etc., emanate from the socio-economic system – neoliberal capitalism – that treats even human beings as commodities.
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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Relevance of Gandhian Thoughts in Contemporary Times
Arun Kumar The frequency of extreme weather events has been increasing. Ferocious cyclones, severe droughts and floods, wildfires, melting glaciers, and polar ice caps are reported all too frequently. The world needs to consider an alternative development path and Gandhi…
Telecom Bill: A New Licence-Permit Raj Online
TK Arun Why the draft telecom bill falls short of the new law India’s dynamic digital economy needs Telecom laws around the world date back to before the internet’s rise, spread and growth to be the ubiquitous substratum of a…
India Playing A Major Role in Global Governance
Harsh V Pant At a time of unprecedented global flux, new structures of global governance will emerge and India is at the heart of most of these. This is a transformative moment in global politics, and in Indian foreign policy…
Rift in Rajasthan Congress Exposes Fundamental Flaws
TK Arun The Congress presidential election promises to shake things up, giving an outlet for the imaginative enterprise of the kind shown by the Rajasthan MLAs who refuse to accept a traitor as their leader, defying the will of the…
Turkey’s India Outreach Needs to be Stronger
Anil Trigunayat Overlooking the mistrust especially when the writing on the wall is yet to fade, is a difficult proposition. But then the rooting principle of international discourse and diplomacy is that there are no permanent friends or enemies but…
What can India do to reinvigorate its diamond industry?
it is worth pondering why a country that produced one of the finest diamonds in history, and which was the leading producer of diamonds in the world a century ago, now has only one semi-active diamond mine. The potential, however, exists to discover many Kohinoors.