In India, the government introduces new laws to improve and ease people’s lives, especially in rural areas where millions ...

India, or at least the ancient notion of it, was rooted in the philosophy of वसुधैव कुटुंबकम (the world is one family). India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity ...

Dr Sachchidanand Joshi is currently the member secretary of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. For decades, global developmental discourse has been overwhelmingly shaped by the ...

Growing public unease is mounting over delays to the government’s expansion of the Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), a flagship pledge to raise death benefits five-fold, from Nu 30,000 to Nu 150,000 ...

On November 20, 2019, I wrote for The Indian Express on “A Greater Ease of Living.” I had argued that discussions of rural ...

For the complex legacy of M.F. Husain, one of 20th-century India’s most important artists, this year has been a tale of two auctions. In March, one of the late painter’s monumental depictions of rural ...