Author: Dr. Jaimine Vaishnav

The ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Nobody in Parliament Wants to Mention

Education
India loves to call itself the world's fastest growing large economy. It loves the phrase "demographic dividend" even more. But a recent NITI Aayog report, titled Reimagining Skilling for Viksit Bharat@2047, has quietly put a number...

India Cannot Become a $5 Trillion Economy by Treating Informal Workers as Invisible

Business
India wants to be a $5 trillion economy. Every budget speech repeats the number. Every investor deck has a slide on it. What almost nobody puts on that slide is this: the person selling vegetables outside...
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Subsidised to Sickness: How Indian Food Policy Built a Health Crisis

Health
India has built an entire civilisation on the argument that we know our bodies better than anyone else. Grandmothers know. WhatsApp forwards know. The...

Why a Booming Book Market Does Not Mean India Reads More

Education
There is a particular sound that libraries used to make. It was not silence, not exactly. It was the sound of pages turning, chairs...

India’s Two-Track Education System Is No Accident

Education
In the winter of 2023, a government primary school in a tribal block of Madhya Pradesh shut its gates for the last time. There...

China’s 17 Minutes That Could Change Global Energy Forever

World
Walk through any conversation about the 21st century and someone will eventually say it belongs to Asia. Fair enough. But strip away the sentimentality...

Mainstream TV Media Has Lost the Plot. The Cockroaches Have Won

Politics
I watched something remarkable happen this June and July. Thousands of Gen Z protesters, wearing cockroach masks, gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi under...

Antonio Gramsci Was Right About Indian Media Before Anyone Noticed

National News
There is a certain theatre to Indian mainstream media today. Anchors shout so that no one has to think. Panels are arranged so that disagreement looks...

Why India’s Best Minds Are Fleeing the Teaching Profession

Education
India likes to call itself a nation on the rise, a young country with the world's largest pool of college going students, a country...

Pakistan’s Silent Civil War Is Louder Than Its Cricket Team

World
Pakistan was built on one idea. Religion would hold together a country that geography, language and ethnicity never agreed to hold together. 79 years later,...

India Wants Singapore’s Passport Rank With Vietnam Tarmac Behaviour

World
For a country that likes to describe itself as a rising power, India's passport tells a strange story. In 2006, the Indian passport stood...

Who Really Profits When Indian Traders and Investors Lose ₹1 Lakh Crore

Business
India likes to tell itself a story. The story goes like this: we are the fastest growing large economy in the world, our stock market...

Every Forced Hug at a Family Party Teaches a Child to Stay Quiet

Crime
I want to start with a number that should stop every reader in their tracks. In 2024, India registered 187,702 crimes against children, an...

Entrepreneurs, Not Exams, Will Save India’s Next Decade

Business
On 26 January 2022, a group of young men in Gaya, Bihar, set a passenger train on fire. Over the next 3 days, similar...
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