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A dangerous prescription

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- For more than five decades, India has built a pharmaceutical ecosystem founded on a simple but powerful principle: reward genuine innovation but ensure that life-saving medicines... Read More


The only durable counter-hegemony is federalism: Thomas Blom Hansen

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Thomas Blom Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He founded and directed Stanford's Center for South Asia from 2010 to 2017. ... Read More


The Braille Press is next door. So why are these students still without books?

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Blind students at one of India's premier institutions for visual disability are four months into the academic year without their complete textbooks. The reason is striking: the N... Read More


Remains of the war

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Decades after a war waged largely on their land and in their name, Adivasis in central India's former conflict zone are still waiting for justice promised to them. In 2019, a co... Read More


Who controls our temples?: Manuraj Shunmugasundaram

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- In this episode of Frontline Conversations, Manuraj Shunmugasundaram, lawyer and author of The People's Sanctum, discusses the 100-year struggle to democratise temples in India, ... Read More


A data centre mired in controversy

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The Andhra Pradesh government's AI data centre policies, expedited approvals, and staggering subsidies have come under intense scrutiny and criticism in recent months. The State'... Read More


BJP rejig: all bark and no bite

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The recent unveiling of a new team of national office-bearers by the BJP president Nitin Nabin is as clear an indication of the growing unease within the party's ranks as any ope... Read More


Patriotism is not surrender

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- From the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day, the Prime Minister said armed naxalism was nearing its end but warned of a "dimagi naxal" mindset. Such people, he said, mu... Read More


Birth registration: Reading beyond the numbers

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- More than five decades after the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, came into force, the BJP-led NDA government recently passed an amendment to this law aiming to tight... Read More


The vegetarian filter

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- High-rise buildings and gated communities, with their clubhouses and security guards, are widely seen as symbols of urban modernity in India. For young professionals arriving fro... Read More