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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.

Neo-Medieval age?

The 21st century is witnessing the resurgence of the medieval into the global political vocabulary. Medievalist imageries and practices are…

India’s Finest

Far away from the ‘manufactured passions’ of the India-versus-Bharat nomenclature, Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Aashish Dhonchak and DSP Humayun Muzammil…

China’s proxy?

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s landing in Moscow days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s visit raises intriguing questions…