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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.

Forgotten Iran

President Barack Obama’s farewell speech on 10 January 2017, after eight year in the White House, spelt out his major…

G20 challenges

This week’s G20 summit in New Delhi poses a substantial diplomatic challenge for India as its presidency of the august…

Unequal America

The 60th anniversary last week of the ‘March on Washington’ when hundreds of thousands of Americans rallied at the nation’s…

Good cities

Indian cities are rapidly growing into large, diverse and unwieldy urban agglo merations. It is only pertinent to reflect on…