Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Amita Singh It is a known fact that quality of governance indicates the capacity to be resilient against disasters. The hurricane Katrina of USA that caused over 2000 deaths and US$ 125 billion in damage in late August 2005 exposed…
Manoj Parmar What defines the character of a city is its public space. Public places affect the image of urban communities and are vital for urban culture and city life. Urban areas are primarily a blend of communities living together.…
In response to a question about India’s job crisis back in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked his interviewer: “If someone opens a pakoda shop in front of your office, does that not count at employment? The person’s daily earning of Rs 200 will never come into any books or accounts. The truth is massive people are being employed.”
T K Arun Another gruesome week in India followed the week of high drama, in which a bunch drunk on the impunity of power had mowed had down protesting farmers in eastern Uttar Pradesh: militants shot dead more civilians in…
Amita Singh Uttarakhand’s sorrow is unending as disasters begin unfolding with every monsoon into unprecedented devastation over its pristine and spiritually grounded high mountains. Floods, landslides and overflowing lakes turn those massive gains of tourism and urbanisation into haunting silence of…
Binti Singh Neighbourhoods in Urban India edited by Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak and Amiya Kumar Das published by BLOOMSBURY in 2021 strengthens the sociological perspective in urban studies. Revisiting and alluding to several classical and contemporary urban scholarly works…
Amidst an all-out confrontation between the United States of America and China, Taiwan is fast emerging as a critical fault-line. The delicate balancing act that the US had long maintained on the issue is increasingly becoming difficult to sustain. The Indo-Pacific is witnessing a power transition unlike any witnessed in the recent past and its implications are being felt far and wide. As China becomes bellicose and aggressive and as the US with its regional partners is undertaking a strong pushback, the pressure on the regional environment is rising with no institutional mechanisms available to mediate tensions and conflicts. The scale and the speed of transition are seemingly much faster than the ability of regional actors to manage the externalities generated by the process that are mostly negative.