Why Tackling Air And Water Pollution In India Is Not Complex But Straightforward
Like clockwork, India’s northern areas, especially the National Capital Region (NCR), experience suffocating air pollution every winter, particularly between late...
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Climate Conversations Need To Embrace India’s LGBTQ+ Communities
As the train pulled into the New Delhi Railway Station, I watched rain splatter against the window — a rare...
Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change
There is a growing interest for children’s literature on the environment and climate, that aims to tackle complex subjects while...
Property Tax Revenue Could Help Cities Adapt To A Hotter World
As the financial year ends, several urban local bodies (ULBs) are introducing amnesty schemes to encourage property tax payments. With...
Four Obstacles To India Joining UNSC
Indian politicians have argued for decades that the nation deserves to be a member of the United Nations Security Council...
Pollution Dips, But Fine Particulate Matter Still Top Public Health Threat
India’s particulate pollution slightly dropped in one year, between 2021 and 2022. Despite this decline, the annual average particulate pollution...
How India Can Build A Winning Sports Culture
India’s relative lack of success at the Paris Olympics (one silver and five bronze) highlights a sporting culture that hasn’t...
India’s Polluted Rivers Are Becoming A Global Pollution Problem
Towering landfills are testament to poor waste segregation practices in India that have persisted for decades. But India’s mounting, untreated...
Consequences Of Indian Arms Exports To Israel
India’s foreign policy balancing act in the Middle East has come under scrutiny with arms shipments to Israel during the...
Why Small Farmers In India Remain Anxious About The Monsoon
One of the more enduring images from the iconic film from the 1950s, Do Bigha Zameen, was its poster showing...
India And Pak May Bicker, But Climate Disasters Won’t Wait
Pakistan-India relations are so often described as hostile that it is easy to lose track of the few efforts at...
Identity And Disordered Eating Among Women In India
“Look how thin she is, she is so weak (bahut kamzor, bahut patli hai), she should see a doctor.” This...
Caste Politics Proved Key To Oppn’s Stunning Success In LS Polls
This year’s general election in India arguably brought up more questions about the fairness of the electoral process than any other in...
The Return Of Coalition Politics In India
India's election results have given a new lease of life to the regional parties. The results of the parliamentary election...
Climate Change Deepens North-South Divide In India
India’s new government has to resolve tensions over climate disaster compensation between the Union government and its southern states. India's...
Extreme Heat Threatens Health, Jobs And Even Democracy In India
As with any environmental disaster, the impact of heat stress hits the poorer harder than the privileged. The world’s largest...
Modi’s Narrow Win Suggests Indian Voters Saw Through Religious Rhetoric
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, had hoped for a landslide victory in the country’s six-week general election –...
Beyond Curry, Cricket And Commonwealth
Australia-India relations were long confined to the 3 Cs of curry, cricket and Commonwealth. The continuing rise of a fourth...
India’s Intimate Partner Violence Demands An All-In Response
India is behind in handling intimate partner violence. Getting on top of the problem requires reform in law, health policy...
Hard Foreign Policy Choices Await The Next Indian Government
India’s global standing and its capacities beyond its borders are becoming part of the aspirations and identity of a small...
How Does Foreign Policy Fare In The Biggest Election In The World?
With India positioning itself as a global player, the microscope falls on PM Narendra Modi’s foreign policy. A post on X in...
Modi’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Taps Into Fears Of Hindu ‘Replacement’
The world’s largest election is currently under way in India, with more than 960 million people registered to vote over...
Climate Change Is Hardly A Burning Issue For Indian Voters
The expectation for Indian politicians to 'be with the people' now encompasses standing with them through their lived experiences of...
The Crisis Of India’s Parliamentary Democracy
Parliament’s hollowing out can only be checked, and reversed, by a successful electoral challenge to the Modi personality cult. A...
The Corporate Takeover Of India’s Media
December 30, 2022, was a day to forget for India’s already badly mauled and tamed media. For, that day, influential...
