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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.

Futile sanctions

On the anniversary of the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, the United States, Britain, and Canada, along with the European…

Catching up

Africa is emerging as the flavour of the season. While Washington has been actively trying to engage African leaders via…

At long last

For decades, India has prided itself on being the world’s largest democracy, a nation that embraces diversity and equality. Yet,…