The replacement of MGNREGA marks a structural shift in India’s welfare state. Behind the rebranding lies a dilution of the right to employment, deeper centralisation, and a new faultline in ...

India faces a strategic dilemma in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Recognition risks legitimising extremism, while engagement helps counter China-Pakistan influence.

From demonetisation to lockdowns and the 2025 voter roll SIR, rushed Modi government policies have imposed lethal costs on the poor. Read the full analysis.

From childhood memory to state policy, December 25 now reflects the uneasy collision between lived pluralism and an aggressive attempt to marginalise Christianity under the language of governance.

BJP retains Goa’s district councils but loses ground as Congress and allies gain. With 2027 Assembly polls ahead, cracks ...

India’s new labour codes weaken worker protections while privileging capital and centralising control over labour.

India’s new labour codes weaken job security, unions, and social protection, pushing millions of workers outside the protection of law.

Hasina transition reveals how authoritarian trauma, economic exploitation and institutional decay have fuelled a volatile ...

As quotas expand without fresh data, youth across categories warn of shrinking opportunity, opaque policy, and deepening ...

India’s four new labour codes consolidate 44 laws but weaken job security, unions, and the right to strike, reversing decades of workers’ struggles.

The Centre’s sweeping consolidation of labour laws raises thresholds, dilutes safeguards, and sidelines unions despite claims of modernisation and social security expansion.

Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...