Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun KumarAbstractThe “first budget of Amrit Kaal (2022-2047)” recognizes Indian cities’ growth potential and seeks to create “sustainable cities for tomorrow” through infrastructure financing and governance reforms. The budget established a Rs 10,000 crore per year Urban...
Anil TrigunayatGeo politics is the art of the possible as they say there are no permanent friends or enemies but only interests. But in today’s fast changing global and regional dynamic especially in the volatile West Asia which is...
Nilanjan BanikRecently, numerous articles have been written on the demise of the dollar. The argument is that China, the second largest economy after the US, is increasingly convincing the world’s largest suppliers of energy, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela, to trade in...
T K ArunIn 1994, when Kim Jong-il succeeded his father Kim Il-sung as the supreme leader of North Korea, ET’s cartoonist E P Unny drew the communist theoretician E M S Namboodiripad trying to hide his totally naked self...
Harsh V Pant & Aditya G ShivamurthyWhile India-China competition and Chinese assertiveness have triggered some changes in Bhutan’s foreign policy, recent developments suggest that continuity still looms large in Bhutan-India relationsEarlier this month, Bhutan’s king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk was on...
Anil TrigunayatAsk any food security expert, and they will tell you: the global impact of the Green Revolution cannot be overstated.While growing up one of the words I heard the most was The Green Revolution which changed India’s agricultural...
Pooja Paswan“The Hindu code bills, the Indian Christian Marriage Act, the Indian Divorce Act and the Indian Succession Act have already introduced the principle of a Uniform Civil Code(UCC) in India in respect of matters covered by them. What...
Harsh V PantJust when it seemed the European Union was finally achieving strategic coherence as a global geopolitical actor, French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China has shattered that myth.The French president and the head of the European...
Harsh V. Pant, Ambuj SahuForeign policy starts getting shaped by public opinion only when a democracy develops and matures. Such a political evolution sows the seeds for the democratization of foreign policy, where citizens actively participate in decision-making on...
Aditi NarayaniOver the years, feminism has been instrumental in highlighting the differential conditioning that women are subjected to in society. Many structures are placed in the public sphere that negate the inclusion and participation of women in society, thereby...
