Anil TrigunayatThe Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) has come of age. We have just had the 5th Summit hosted by Sri Lanka (30 March 2022) in a digital format due to the pandemic. It...
Harsh V. Pant & Tobias ScholzGermany’s recently elected center-left coalition under Chancellor Scholz chose India as the partner for its first governmental consultations on 2nd May 2022. Beyond the signaling effects that Europe’s and Asia’s largest democracies intend to cooperate...
Dhiraj NayyarThe global economy is in a tight spot, haunted by the spectre of slowing growth and accelerating inflation. In India, RBI finally threw its weight behind inflation, raising the repo rate by 40 bps and the cash reserve ratio by 50 bps. Already, a lot...
IMPRI TeamAccording to the Registrar General of India (2001), slum areas broadly constitute “A compact area of at least 300 populations or about 60-70 households of poorly built congested tenements, in an unhygienic environment with inadequate infrastructure and lacking...
IMPRI TeamAccording to the Registrar General of India (2001), slum areas broadly constitute “A compact area of at least 300 populations or about 60-70 households of poorly built congested tenements, in an unhygienic environment with inadequate infrastructure and lacking...
Edited by Sadan and Pushpendra, London: Routledge, 2022Deepra DandekarI want to begin by thanking Sadan and Pushpendra for putting together this wonderful new volume on what migration emotions entail in colonial, and postcolonial contemporary South Asia. This volume consists...
Harsh V. PantAs Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes his three-nation tour of Europe, there is suddenly new energy and momentum in India’s ties with the West. And the remarkable aspect of this change is that it is happening at...
Gurinder KaurFor the last two weeks, the states of North-West and Central India have been in the grip of severe heat waves. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had last week issued an orange alert in five states: Punjab, Rajasthan,...
T K ArunThe Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India held an emergent meeting (off-cycle meeting, in RBI-speak that steers clear of emotive terms such as ’emergency’), and raised the central bank’s policy rates by 40 basis...
Amb Anil TrigunayatWest Asia, which has been beset by the intra-regional rivalries and inter-religious contestations and festering age-old issues, appears to be heading towards a more credible rapprochement among the major competing nations. As the impact of the Russia...
