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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.

Graded Inequality~I

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, and brutalizes our lower class. ~ Mathew Arnold. The term…

Cold War 2.0

That the United States of America is entering a consequential period in its relations with China is beyond doubt. The…

JFK twist

As the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, an unexpected twist has emerged from an interview with…

The Indian Touch

India pulled off a spectacular success at the just concluded New Delhi G20 Summit. An extremely well-organised event attended by…