Session ReportVamsi GokarajuIntroduction:Impact and Policy Research Institute conducted “Public Policy Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Fellowship Cohort 2.0, a comprehensive 4-month program that offered a unique blend of engaging lectures interactive workshops networking opportunities, and Hands-On fieldwork experiences led...
Harsh V PantA Year of Fundamental Reconfiguration As we bid adieu to the year 2023, we are witnessing a global order that has been fundamentally reconfigured – politically, economically and diplomatically. Trends that were simmering below the surface for...
Prabir DeA stronger Secretariat is a must to drive meaningful interactions among member-states.Trade and transit facilitations must be given top priority.India recently seconded a senior diplomat to drive BIMSTEC, or ‘Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic...
Vamsi GokarajuIntroductionThe Pradhan Mantri Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups Mission is a scheme aimed at improving the socio-economic conditions of the particularly vulnerable tribes.The scheme aims to provide basic facilities such as safe housing clean drinking water and sanitation, improved...
Harsh V. PantA process that started in August 2019 finally culminated this week when the Supreme Court placed its seal of approval on the Narendra Modi government’s decision to revoke Article 370 of the Constitution.IntroductionOn 5 August 2019, Home...
Chaitanya DeshpandeAbstractIndia’s Development Partnership Cooperation completed seventy-five years in 2022. Quick Impact Projects started by the Government of India are a crucial part of the Development Partnerships. These projects were announced for Lower Mekong Region countries, Cambodia, Lao PDR,...
Aditi NarayaniFormer PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a charismatic personality whose assimilative nature won many admirers. But it was his leadership that gave India transformative policies.I have a vivid memory of a gleeful and beaming laugh of the great...
Harsh V. Pant Aditya Gowdara ShivamurthyIn early December, India’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Ajit Doval, took part in the sixth NSA meeting of the Colombo Security Conclave (CSC). The meeting reviewed the developments and progress made by the CSC...
TK ArunIf the government can arbitrarily class any Bill as a Money Bill, its passage in Lok Sabha is enough to make it law; that would make the Rajya Sabha redundantThe most consequential piece of news reported by newspapers...
BhanviIntroductionBorders are the synonyms of sovereignty and ensure the country’s dignity by establishing its powers and control within its territories, as a result, it becomes essential to develop border infrastructure for better movement and defense of the country. For...
