Why India’s Middle Class Is Living On Borrowed Money
byWith no jobs, low wage growth, lack of social safety net, and easy lending India’s middle class are living on borrowed money.
Policy
America’s Space Weapons And The Battle For The Orbit
byThe race to militarise and control the space is a zero-sum game.
India’s Next Strategic Vulnerability: Its Submarine Fibre-Optic Network
byIndia’s digital economy depends on an invisible network whose vulnerabilities extend far beyond its shores.
The Financial-Geopolitical Complex: When Balance Sheets Become Battlefields
byMoney, markets, and financial infrastructure have become powerful instruments of geopolitics. They subdue the world without firing a shot.
As AI Rapidly Proliferates, It Is Essential To Declare The Right To Think As A Fundamental Human Right
byThe rapid proliferation of AI is eliminating the need to think. Therefore, it is essential to protect the right to think by declaring it as a fundamental human right.
The Hungry Century: Food, Power And The Unmaking Of The Global Order
byIn 2025, 35.5 million children were acutely malnourished with nearly 10 million cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM), leaving weakened immune systems unable to withstand ordinary childhood illness.
The Space Race & The New Great Game
byAs a new space race begins, it is essential to push for an ambitious yet collaborative international governance structure.
How India Inspired Pakistan’s Law On Disaster Management
byA senior Indian bureaucrat shared a copy of India’s Disaster Management Act with a Pakistani bureaucrat. What happened next was a cut,copy, paste job which made history in Pakistan’s policy circles.
The AI Accountability Gap
byThe future of artificial intelligence will depend not only on what these systems can do but on how societies choose to govern them.
Diabetes And Deep Fakes
byIndia, a country with over 100 million people living with diabetes, has become a hotspot for deepfake disinformation.
The Use Of AI Causes “Brain Rot”: Beware
byThere is ample evidence to show that the increased use of Artificial Intelligence causes ‘cognitive atrophy’—in simpler terms, “Brain Rot.”
Vaping & The Politics Of Partial Truths
byVaping, once cleverly marketed as a solution to reduce smoking, is turning into a public health problem whose consequences could be catastrophic.
India’s Transgender Law Takes A Restrictive Turn
byThe Transgender Amendment Bill, if enacted, would only add to the Government’s arsenal for moral policing.
War, Energy & The Fragility Of Global Food Systems
byThe U.S.-Israel war on Iran has amplified vulnerabilities, pushing interconnected systems toward their limits.
The RTI Story: How India’s Right To Information Act Was Gradually Weakened
byThe RTI Act, despite its flaws, represented one of the most significant democratic experiments in independent India. But it has been systematically weakened.