higher education, private universities, GER India

Higher education: How to turn scale into quality

India’s higher education system has expanded rapidly, but quality lags behind scale. #education Read more »
Sanchar Saathi app

Sanchar Saathi app and the boundaries of state power

India’s brief experiment with forcing Sanchar Saathi app onto every smartphone exposes a deeper constitutional debate over surveillance, consent and state overreach. #SancharSaathi Read more »
Disaster management

Success of disaster management systems rests on community power

India’s disaster management systems work best when empowered communities lead the action and government agencies follow. #disastermanagement Read more »
rise in women’s self-employment

Women’s self-employment surges, but gaps persist

The rise in women’s self-employment masks persistent gaps in income, skills, and social protection. Read more »
AI in news ecosystem

AI is transforming news, search, fact-checks and feeds

AI is reshaping the news ecosystem, and people are increasingly open to it, even as concerns about accuracy, transparency and accountability continue to rise. Read more »
India's demographic dividend under threat

Demographic dividend: Jobs, skills and a looming crisis

India’s young population offers opportunity, but rising unemployment threatens its demographic dividend and growth ambitions. Read more »
Zohran Mamdani GEN Z politics

Gen Z politics: How social media is rewriting strategy

Meta 3: Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals how content-driven, platform-native campaigns can transform Gen Z politics. #politics #GENZ #socialmedia #Mamdani Read more »
West Bengal SIR exercise

West Bengal SIR rollout sparks social anxieties in West Bengal

West Bengal SIR exercise is stoking citizenship fears, exclusion risks, and rising distress across vulnerable communities. Read more »
urban homelessness india

Urban homelessness exposes deep policy failures

Growing urban homelessness reveals gaps in SUH, PMAY-U and urban policy, weak planning, and fragile social protection. Read more »
SMART CLASSROOMS

India’s smart classrooms falter amid frequent blackouts

Recurring power outages are breaking continuity in India's smart classrooms, widening the learning inequality. #classrooms #education #edtech Read more »