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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.

Lithium auction

India’s move to auction its lithium reserves in Jammu and Kashmir represents a significant step towards securing a critical raw…

A fragile peace~I

Four years after the abrogation of Article 370, are winds of change blowing through the Valley, auguring a new era…

Outreach to Seoul

A glimmer of hope in global diplomacy emerges as Chinese President Xi Jinping considers visiting South Korea for a summit.…

Timeline worries

The passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill marks a triumph that is layered by delay at two stages first, in…