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13 years after Parliament passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, an uncomfortable question refuses to go away. Why do so many Indian offices, private and public, still treat...
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
India wants to be a $5 trillion economy. Every budget speech repeats the number. Every investor deck has a slide on it. What almost...
Subsidised to Sickness: How Indian Food Policy Built a Health Crisis
India has built an entire civilisation on the argument that we know our bodies better than anyone else. Grandmothers know. WhatsApp forwards know. The...
Jharkhand’s Paper Leak Protest: Students Fighting for Justice or Politicians Fighting for Power?
Behind the anger on the streets lies a bigger question: Is this purely a youth movement against recruitment failures, or has Jharkhand’s political rivalry...
Why a Booming Book Market Does Not Mean India Reads More
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
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
Walk through any conversation about the 21st century and someone will eventually say it belongs to Asia. Fair enough. But strip away the sentimentality...
Assam Floods: When a National Tragedy Becomes an Annual Ritual
When the floodwaters rise in Assam, so does the nation’s conscience—for a few days. Television channels broadcast heartbreaking images, Politicians announce relief packages, Rescue...
Mainstream TV Media Has Lost the Plot. The Cockroaches Have Won
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
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...
CJP Protest: The Government Must Shift From Control to Communication
Leadership is not measured by how effectively dissent is contained. Leadership is measured by how sincerely dissent is heard. Silence creates rumours. Rumours create...
Why India’s Best Minds Are Fleeing the Teaching Profession
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
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,...