Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Harsh V. Pant As Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes his three-nation tour of Europe, there is suddenly new energy and momentum in India’s ties with the West. And the remarkable aspect of this change is that it is happening at…
Gurinder Kaur For the last two weeks, the states of North-West and Central India have been in the grip of severe heat waves. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had last week issued an orange alert in five states: Punjab, Rajasthan,…
T K Arun The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India held an emergent meeting (off-cycle meeting, in RBI-speak that steers clear of emotive terms such as ’emergency’), and raised the central bank’s policy rates by 40 basis…
Anil Trigunayat West Asia, which has been beset by the intra-regional rivalries and inter-religious contestations and festering age-old issues, appears to be heading towards a more credible rapprochement among the major competing nations. As the impact of the Russia -Ukraine…
Tikender Singh Panwar The political activity for the Assembly elections in November 2022 has intensified in Himachal Pradesh. Central leaders have started visiting the state more frequently, and for BJP president J P Nadda, who hails from Himachal, it will…
Impoverishment among English workers during the early years of the Industrial Revolution had prompted Leicester framework knitters to frame this resolution in 1817: “… if liberal Wages were given to the Mechanics in general throughout the Country, the Home Consumption of our Manufactures would be immediately more than doubled, and consequently every hand would soon find full employment” (cited in E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class, 1963).
TK Arun The discourse on climate change must change, from one that prescribes the reduction of fresh emissions of greenhouse gases to one that focuses on the removal of the accumulated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. India must take the…