Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
T K Arun In a week in which India administered 62.3 million vaccine doses, the inoculation culture spread to the body politic. The BJP sent its incumbent Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani packing and replaced him with an experienced municipal…
Dr. Gail Omvedt, committed and courageous, prolific writer and powerful social scientists who brought to the fore Phule-Ambedkar legacy in the context of rising social movements in the post emergency period is no more. She passed on 25 August 2021 at the age of 80. Gail's close association with grass-roots movements of rural women- farmers, forest dwellers and women headed households and her involvement in the newly formed women's rights movement during late 1970s were captured in her engaging and outstanding first person account in her book, We Shall Smash this Prison published in 1978.
The Biden Administration is facing flak at home for its disastrous Afghanistan policy that is likely to hang across Joe Biden’s neck like an albatross. With hundreds of would-be evacuees desperate to board waiting charter flights out of Afghanistan, there is an immediacy to the challenges Washington is facing.
The government is reportedly mulling over various measures to provide relief to the telecom sector, ranging from extending the payment period for outstanding dues to 20 years, to lowering the license fees and spectrum usage charges as shares of revenue. These are all welcome thoughts but if telcos follow the ‘sale and lease’ policy common in the aviation industry, they would avoid locking up capital on a spectrum hoard.
Amita Singh Recent appointments of women judges to the Judiciary in India are being hailed as a final cracking down of the glass ceiling that held back meritorious women from top positions. Taking a cue from Bentham’s differentiation of law…
Tikender Singh Panwar The transition from the old model towns built during the late 1960s and the new townships developed during the late 1990s (still continuing) is very stark. The old towns were built by adding housing as an inalienable…
IMPRI Team Employment is the source of growth of the nation. The drastic recession of the country during the Covid 19 phase has taken employment to nadir. Employment is the need of the hour as the unemployed workforce is downfall…