Category: Politics and Governance in India

Issues related to politics and governance in India

On Floods, disaster management & AI Dividend

Just 2 links (+ a bonus link) this weekend but hopefully all interesting and thought-provoking. The first is a sharp & insightful piece by Shankkar Aiyar on how systemic inertia, inaction and lack of...

A placeholder for the Uniform Civil Code

Considering that this is going to remain a hot topic for some time to come, I am creating this post to act as a placeholder for links and articles related to the Uniform Civil...

What’s going on in Manipur?

A dive into one of the worst outbreaks of violence in India in the last couple of decades I refrained from commenting on the situation in Manipur for the last several weeks for a...

What I read (& found interesting) last week…

This week I am going to be lazy and so you will just have to do with a collections of interesting articles/tweets from the last two weeks. Noah Smith has a blog series running...

On Anna, Selfishness & Corruption..

Last week I chanced on an interview of Anna Hazare in which he talked “about the inspiration behind his social activism, his philosophy and his vision for India”. The interview was from last year, a few weeks...