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How technology became India’s social equaliser

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India Mission on 1 July 2015, many saw it as an ambitious technology programme aimed at expanding internet access and digitising government services.

The New Family

For decades, India’s social contract rested on an assumption that required little intervention from the state: families would care for their elderly.

Delayed Recognition

Every democracy owes two debts to its soldiers. The first is to equip them well enough to fight.

Agni Kawach

India is building its energy future on several pillars at once: bio-ethanol, coal gasification, renewables, and nuclear power.

Balancing Act

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has maintained its resolute stance on inflation control, holding the key lending rate at 6.5 per cent for the fourth consecutive policy meeting.

Our India ~ II

Several authors, seers and leaders of freedom movements in India drew inspiration from our own tradition. They sought to build an India that would be rooted in our own social, cultural and political history.

Pros and cons of caste census

As the 2024 Lok Sabha elections draw closer, political parties are trying to connect with marginalised communities and earn their support.

Back to the future

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new game in town but it is still very much at home, as it were ~ the new jobs it is generating are all clustered in America’s traditional big tech hubs such as California’s Bay Area.