Sustainability and information flow

Sustainability is also an information infrastructure problem

Sustainability policies falter when information arrives late, remains technical, or excludes those meant to benefit. Read more »
GST reform

What GST reform got right — and where it fell short

GST’s success today lies less in ambition and more in predictability, compliance discipline, and cooperative federalism. #GST Read more »
2025 floods in Aceh, Indonesia

Aceh’s bitter lesson from 2025 Indonesian floods

In 2025, Aceh province was among the worst hit by floods as the administration failed to respond adequately to the met office’s warning. Read more »
Mexico's tariff hike, India trade

Mexico’s tariff hike exposes India’s trade vulnerability

Mexico’s tariff hike is a reminder that predictable free trade is fading, forcing India to rely on strategy, not sentiment. #Mexico #trade Read more »
Indian universities ageing

India’s universities are ageing faster than they can renew

India’s universities are leaning increasingly on experience, but weak execution risks turning continuity into quiet stagnation. Read more »
US-China ties explained

US-China rivalry: Too entangled to decouple

Unlike the Cold War standoff, the US-China competition is constrained by shared production networks, mutual dependence, and high costs of separation. Read more »
monetary policy changes across the world

How crisis-era monetary policy reshaped the limits of central banking

Years of quantitative easing helped economies stabilise after 2008, but the central banks are now attempting to reverse it through monetary policy. Read more »
AI and local journalism

How AI could hurt — and help — local journalism

Carefully deployed, AI may also help fill civic information gaps and support public-interest reporting. Read more »
child marriage

Why child marriage persists in West Bengal despite social progress

West Bengal’s stubbornly high rate of child marriage exposes the limits of legal reform and income growth—and points to girls’ education as the most effective policy lever. #childmarriage #WestBengal Read more »
distress migration

Distress migration: Anti-trafficking policy must focus on mental health

India’s distress migration and trafficking crisis cannot be solved without embedding mental health care into every stage of rescue and rehabilitation. #migration #mentalhealth Read more »