air pollution

Air pollution inequality is turning clean air into a class privilege

Air pollution in India is not just an environmental failure, it is a question of justice, public health and unequal citizenship. #airpollution Read more »
Expensive healthcare real estate driving up costs

Healthcare real estate is driving costs, access, priorities

As hospitals become tenants and healthcare real estate turns into an asset class, rent obligations and investor priorities are beginning to influence medical decisions and system resilience. Read more »
women empowerment

Women empowerment incomplete without safety, work and agency

India has improved girls’ education and expanded protections, but women empowerment still falters where it matters most: agency, safety, and paid work. #womenempowerment Read more »
higher education reforms

Higher education reform: How universities can restore academic rigour

Higher education reforms have become necessary. Universities must return to their core mission of fostering critical thinking and intellectual rigour. #Education Read more »
urban women in gig work

Urban women and gig work: Why India’s platform economy is not yet a real jobs pathway

The gig economy looks flexible on paper, but for urban women it often reproduces old inequalities through care burdens, unsafe mobility, and weak protection. Read more »
private universities

Private universities: Training alone won’t drive research excellence

While faculty training workshops are a common feature in private universities, true academic transformation requires stronger research ecosystems. #university #education Read more »
passive euthanasia in India

Passive euthanasia moves from doctrine to decision

The Harish Rana ruling has turned passive euthanasia in India from a constitutional principle into a lived legal reality, and exposed the absence of a proper end-of-life law. #euthanasia Read more »
AI democratisation and GDP growth

India faces AI democratisation challenge as economic growth slows

India’s slowing growth has revived a core policy question: can AI democratisation raise productivity across agriculture, manufacturing, and services. Read more »
women's jobs india

Women’s jobs face greater disruption from artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence could reshape the labour market in ways that disproportionately affect women's jobs. Read more »
NCDs lifestyle disease

NCD burden needs better policy, not blame-laden labels

The label “lifestyle disease” may sound harmless, but it narrows a complex NCD crisis into a story of personal failure, lets the government escape scrutiny. Read more »