Arun KumarTHE Government, worried about the inflation rapidly inching up month after month, has finally become proactive. The steps announced are designed to lower the prices of basics like diesel, steel, cement and plastics. Wholesale Price Index (‘WPI’) has risen at more...
Yashovardhan Azad & Chandrachur SinghJohn Stuart Mill, one of the most passionate advocates of liberty and freedom of thought, expression and speech in the 19th century, argued that ‘it really is of importance, not only what men do, but also what...
Srikanth KondapalliThe Uighur internment camps with an estimated 1 million incarcerated minorities in Xinjiang in China continue to prick the global conscience. The issue is snowballing into allegations of genocide, leading to renewed tensions between western countries and China. In addition, Uighur links to turbulent...
Tikender Singh PanwarThis incident pertains to the last years of the 20th century in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh when I was on an internship towards becoming a full-time functionary of the democratic movement in the state.The area...
Santosh MehrotraSurjit Bhalla, India’s Executive Director (IMF), Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Advisor under UPA, and K Bhasin, in an IMF Working Paper, state that to estimate poverty, when no survey has been undertaken, is to take the most...
Dhiraj Nayyar Eight years into Narendra Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister, it is no surprise that many economists remain unconvinced about his economics. This is...
The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps with Prof Mridul Eapen on A Pragmatic Approach to Gender Responsive Budgeting: Experience of Kerala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuK1GBHWo00#IMPRI Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to...
T K ArunWhen China coughs these days, world growth shivers. Only a few Chinese are coughing because of infection by SARS Cov2, but, thanks to Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping’s zero- COVID strategy, not many rasping throats are...
Harsh V. PantThe second in-person summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Quad, in Japan managed to generate a lot of buzz. While the global media covered it in its usual breathless manner, China also ensured that the event retained...
Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo More than 16 months after taking office, President Joe Biden stepped off Air Force One and onto Asian soil for the first time in his presidency. His four-day visit coincided with a slew of diplomatic initiatives:...
