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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.

Tiddle ground

The concept of “One Nation, One Election” has once again gained momentum in India’s political discourse, presenting another opportunity to…

Indian rhapsody

In one big blaze and burst, like Diwali coming before its officially approved time, it was the discovery of quite…

Putin’s Gambit

As Russian installed authorities plan holding regional elections in parts of Ukraine that Moscow claims as its own, it’s evident…

Religion as Experience

When Dr S Radhakrishnan was invited in 1926 to Manchester College, Oxford to deliver the Upton lectures, he was already…