Electoral rolls and voting rights: it's time for India to revisit its founding debates and the ECI's evolution

New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Recent revelations about the inner workings of the Election Commission of India (ECI) have exposed an asymmetric and undemocratic working relationship between the three election c... Read More

Urban heroism: city authorities should take note of public support for officials who do their jobs right

New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- Flooded streets in Gurugram's tony neighbourhoods incited the ire of many billionaires and startup founders. A wobbly building in Delhi, doubling up as a hostel, collapsed and k... Read More

Student protests have brought India's welfare model into focus-and it clearly needs a basic rethink

New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Student protests at Jantar Mantar in Delhi did not only secure the resignation of India's former education minister Dharmendra Pradhan but should also be credited with other achi... Read More

India's Tribunal Reforms Bill doesn't go far enough to resolve what troubles its quasi-judicial system

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- The National Tribunal Commission (NTC) has now become a reality after the Lok Sabha passed the Tribunal Reforms Bill, 2026, on 10 August and the Rajya Sabha passed it the next da... Read More

Chandrasekaran's exit: the future of this storied conglomerate hinges on succession at Tata Sons

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Tremors deepening fissures within Tata group boardrooms and its broader corporate ecosystem should be viewed in the light of a striking data-point: apparently only 3% of family b... Read More

Fiscal federalism at risk: are Finance Commissions undoing a grand design of the Indian Constitution?

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- The balance of power between the Centre and states under India's constitutional federalism, historically fraught yet resilient, has been tilting towards greater centralization eve... Read More

Can India lead the world's middle powers? Indian democracy would need to be strengthened first

New Delhi, July 26 -- Fans of Chinese author Liu Cixin's science fiction trilogy, loosely called The Three-Body Problem, range from former US president Barack Obama to Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and... Read More