August 2023

Lip Service: Indian Banks Are Woefully Underprepared To Deal With Climate Change Risks

August 31, 2023

While serious statements promising steps to mitigate climate change and curb the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) are regularly delivered at international conferences on climate change, real movement on this front can only come when government policy is backed by the financial

The Great Data Heist: The Digital Personal Data Protection Act Incentivises Building Of A Surveillance State

Manan Kumar

August 25, 2023

Top Story

During the recently concluded monsoon session of Parliament, the government rammed through several key pieces of legislation amid repeated disruptions due to the opposition’s demand for a debate on the ethnic violence in Manipur that broke out on May 3. Crucial among

Sex Ratio Declined In 13 States Even As More Money Spent On Publicity

Jayanta Bhattacharya

August 23, 2023

Deep Dive

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP), the Central government’s flagship scheme—where a prime objective was to normalise the skewed Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB)—may have been successful in raising awareness, thanks to liberal spending on media and advocacy, but questions remain on its

Is The Index Cited By The PM on August 15 An Accurate Measure of Acute Poverty?

Vivian Fernandes

August 21, 2023

Top Story

One hundred and thirty-five million of “my fellow poor brothers and sisters have broken free from the chains of poverty and entered the new middle class” during his first five-year term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared in his Independence Day address to

Food For Thought: Can Conservation Agriculture Mitigate Climate Change Impact?

Kalyan Chatterjee

August 18, 2023

Commentary

Food security no longer remains simply a matter of increasing productivity and growing more grains. High-yielding varieties, extensive use of fertilisers and more irrigation worked like magic for the past few decades to pull India out of its dependence on imports to

Closed Chapters: Manipur Violence Throws Students Into Abyss Of Uncertainty

Ninglun Hanghal

August 11, 2023

In Focus

The months of May and June are summer vacation for schools and colleges in Manipur, as in the rest of India. When ethnic violence broke out on May 3—which shows no signs of ending even after more than three months—school and college

Human Trafficking: The Alarming Case Of India’s Missing Girls And Women

Jayanta Bhattacharya

August 7, 2023

Top Story

On July 30, India, along with the rest of the world, marked the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The theme for 2023 was ‘Reach Every Victim of Trafficking, Leave No One Behind’. Ironically, just four days earlier, the government stated in

Access to medicines: Caught between expensive patented drugs and low-quality generics

Kalyan Chatterjee

August 4, 2023

Top Story

Patients in India, especially the poor with limited access to healthcare, are caught between the devil and the deep sea. They cannot afford the exorbitantly priced patented medicines offered by global ‘big pharma.’ For that matter, even most people in prosperous countries

Lip Service: Indian Banks Are Woefully Underprepared To Deal With Climate Change Risks

The Great Data Heist: The Digital Personal Data Protection Act Incentivises Building Of A Surveillance State

Sex Ratio Declined In 13 States Even As More Money Spent On Publicity

Is The Index Cited By The PM on August 15 An Accurate Measure of Acute Poverty?

Food For Thought: Can Conservation Agriculture Mitigate Climate Change Impact?

Closed Chapters: Manipur Violence Throws Students Into Abyss Of Uncertainty

Human Trafficking: The Alarming Case Of India’s Missing Girls And Women

Access to medicines: Caught between expensive patented drugs and low-quality generics

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