(cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-3512-1. Reviewed by Henk-Jan Dekker (Bielefeld University) It is quite common for historical accounts of electrification to focus either on urban or rural electrification. The ...

National awards such as the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri are often celebrated as instruments to recognize exceptional service to the nation. However, this paper argues ...

When I entered a classroom of Vidyavanam (a primary school in Andhra Pradesh), I noticed four tables arranged in the room. Students from different grades were sitting together, with no strict seating ...

If aadhaar based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism is not wrong, nothing is wrong. The question:Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial ...

Himanta Biswa Sarma must resign as Chief Minister of Assam for serial violations of his oath of office to govern without ‘fear or favour, affection or ill-will’. PUCL strongly condemns the recent ...

The COP30 conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which met in Belém, Brazil last December concluded on a disappointing note. The conference had several key ...

Keywords: Economic growth measurement, National Accounts Statistics, Informal sector estimation, data credibility, inequality and growth dynamics In recent years, India’s economic story has come to be ...

Pakistan has warned the United Nations (UN) that India’s decision to put the Indus Waters Treaty on hold has sparked an “unprecedented crisis” for its water security and could threaten regional ...

As the winter set in Delhi so did the smog, like every year for past many years though this year seems to be the longest and worst in terms of the AQI. The smog is more stubborn, the haze too visible ...

When all leaders of the world are capitulating before Trump, Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, has shown spine and delivered a speech in Davos on 20th January, 2026 that would go down in ...