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PMGSY at 25: How Rural Roads Changed India — and Why the Next Phase Is About Maintenance, Not Mileage
Twenty-five years after its launch, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) stands as one of independent India’s most transformative — and costliest — rural infrastructure programmes. Conceived...
Tobacco’s Quiet Surge: Why India’s Welfare State Faces a Growing Health and Fiscal Risk
The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2023–24 reveals a trend that sits uneasily with India’s expanding welfare and healthcare ambitions: tobacco consumption is rising rapidly, spreading across regions...
Why Reusable Rockets Are Reshaping the Economics of Space — and What It Means for India
For nearly four decades, space exploration was dominated by government agencies and expendable rockets — powerful, complex, and used just once. That era is now giving way to...Pax Silica Explained: Why the Global Tech Economy Is Being Rewired Around Chips, AI and Rare Earths — and Where India Fits In
The global economy today is shaped as much by long-standing inequalities as by rapid technological shifts. While the North–South divide in income and resource consumption endures, new frontier...
Why Youth Exchanges Could Become the Strongest Bridge Between China and India
Across the world’s two most populous countries, young people are increasingly being seen not just as beneficiaries of development, but as its primary drivers. In both China and...
Why the India–UAE Defence Talks Matter Amid a Fracturing Gulf Order
A brief, nearly two-hour visit to New Delhi by UAE President and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — marked by a single meeting with...
The Coming Copper Crunch: Why the Electric Vehicle Boom Is Running Into a Hard Resource Wall
The global pivot to electric vehicles (EVs) is often portrayed as a clean technological leap — quieter roads, lower emissions, and freedom from fossil fuels. Yet beneath this...
Donroe Doctrine? How Trump’s Venezuela Operation Signals a Hard Reset of the Global Order in 2026
The opening days of 2026 delivered a jolt to the international system. In a swift, unilateral operation, the United States abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife,...
From Deployment to Dominance: Why Ease of Doing Business Will Decide India’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Future
India added more than 45 GW of clean energy capacity in 2025, signalling that renewables are no longer peripheral to its power system. With round-the-clock renewable energy tenders...
Gig Work or Employment? Why India Must Rethink Labour Rights in the Platform Economy
On New Year’s Eve, a planned nationwide strike by platform and gig workers brought an unresolved legal and moral question back into sharp focus: what exactly is the...
When Climate Cooperation Fractures: Why a U.S. Withdrawal Hits India’s Weather Forecasts and Food Security
Global warming does not wait for politics. Heatwaves, cyclones, erratic monsoons and floods move faster than election cycles and budget seasons. They also ignore borders. On January 7–8,...
