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Bihar SIR threatens the credibility of elections
July 9, 2025
Any arbitrary disenfranchisement of voters in the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections will cast a shadow over the sanctity of elections in India. Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do…
An Insincere Attempt At Hollow Reforms
July 4, 2025
Co-Author: Mrudula Vanangamudi The Karnataka government’s move to enact the Karnataka Rohith Vemula (Prevention of Exclusion or Injustice) (Right to Education and Dignity) Act, 2025, is a welcome step forward, responding to long-standing demands for such…
Equitable Redistribution And Inefficiency Under Credit Rationing
July 2, 2025
Co-authors: Hamid Beladi, Sugata Marjit, Reza Oladi It has been argued in many policy circles that lack of access to credit by the poor may be a source of inefficiency in developing economies. Then, conventional…
Cost Structures and Innovation Incentives
June 29, 2025
In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding, i.e., profit enhancing. We show that the same may not be true when marginal costs are increasing. In contrast…
Water Management and Conservation in India Fostering Water Justice: Arguing for Adopting Just Sustainability in Water Governance
June 22, 2025
Co-Author: Sanjay Shenoi P, Doctoral Scholar, School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru The paper examines adopting the ‘just sustainability’ principle in India’s water governance that can balance human water demands and ecological…
Does Employment And Autonomy Influence Safe Menstrual Hygiene In India?
June 18, 2025
Menstrual Hygiene is often considered vital for formulating public health policies in developing economies like India, because the overall wellbeing and social development of women could remarkably be compromised due to poor menstrual hygiene. This…
The Improvement Regime: Public Trusts, Real Estates, and India’s Urban Futurities
June 13, 2025
This article suggests that rather than studying the “failures” of the individual trusts to foster sanitary built environments, we should pay attention to the contingent workings of the city trusts that were constitutively designed for…
Why no one is talking about counting caste in Kerala
June 13, 2025
The two major political fronts have remained ambivalent about the caste census. This reflects not only fears about electoral arithmetic, but also deeper apprehensions that it could disrupt Kerela’s carefully maintained political stability and expose…
As India’s groundwater runs dry, calls for reform grow
June 12, 2025
“The worsening water crisis highlights an urgent need for better groundwater governance in India.” Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not reflect the opinion or stand of the…
God and Demon: Antagonist to the Buddha
June 11, 2025
A book review of Malleable Māra: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil by Michael D. Nichols Sanctum Books, New Delhi, 2025. Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do…
Book Review | Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia by Neeti Nair
June 11, 2025
The book review distills some of the main arguments of Nair’s pathbreaking historical study of Secularism, in most of modern South Asia. The review highlights the importance of studying the intellectual and social history of key…
Narivetta’s Partial Image Of Muthanga Struggle: Adivasi Fight For Land Drags On For 22 Years
June 10, 2025
The recently released Malayalam film Narivetta has sparked public discussions in Kerala regarding the 2003 Muthanga land struggle. But, 22 years later, RTI responses reveal that spending on special Adivasi funds and promised land allocations…