Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Amita Singh Delhi has been waterlogged again after less than an hour of a downpour. Kerala, Assam, and Bihar are flooded too and Mumbai, like many other cities, continues to pay the price for illegal constructions. Ironically, the most beautiful…
Indira Khurana Depending on the geography and ecology, the water-related impacts of climate change are experienced in different ways. What is common is the increase in extreme weather events, all leading to deepening poverty; dwindling of livelihood opportunities; disrupted access…
There are subtle but what seem like long-term shifts in how politics is being pursued and constructed in the “New India” after 2014. The most notable of these is that the old binary of secular-versus-communal does not easily help identify political parties through their social agendas. Secular parties today are drawing leaders from the BJP and there is little hesitation in making them the party face in a region. The latest is Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was with the BJP but is now the Pradesh Congress Committee chief of Punjab. There are many other instances like his in Maharashtra, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.
Rajesh Tandon In remote villages of Husainabad block of Palamau district of Jharkhand, most people have heard of some disease called Corona, but do not know anyone personally who got infected, let alone anything about the vaccine. A recent field…
Dhiraj Nayyar If India needed another reminder on the need to reduce its import dependence in key sectors, it has one now. The recent spurt in inflation isn’t out of the textbook. This is not an argument for protectionism. The…
Devashish Dhar, Manish Thakre Child-friendly cities’ is an emerging concept in the urban management sector in many countries across the globe, including India, where it complements government schemes that aim to develop India’s urban spaces as centers of human capital…
Tikender Singh Panwar The Pegasus spyware, designed by an Israeli company, NSO, is in the news after revelations that it was used to hack the phones of over 1,000 Indians, including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, journalists, Buddhist monks, and politicians.…