RBI’s Draft Relief Framework on Calamity-Affected Loans: A Missed Opportunity for Genuine Disaster Justice

RBI has released draft Directions for “Relief Measures in Areas Affected by Natural Calamities,” the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) seeking to rationalise and harmonise prudential norms governing loans disrupted by calamities and other...

Read more March 10, 2026 at 11:35 am Amitanshu Verma

Citizens of India or Ghulams of the Billionaire Raj?

February was a long month of protests for Indian workers. To begin with: a general strike organised by a joint committee of trade unions saw the participation of over 30 crore workers! On February...

AI Impact Summit: PR, Protests and the truth

Days after the India AI Impact Summit 2026 wrapped up in New Delhi, news and digital media are flooded with news about the controversy studded event. While a lot of state backed media have...

Read more February 24, 2026 at 12:54 pm CFA

Bridges, Budgets, and Broken Accountability

Two days ago a parapet segment of an under-construction metro collapsed in Mumbai, killing one person and injuring three others. This incident is the newest addition to a troublingly long list of infrastructure accidents...

Read more February 17, 2026 at 6:23 pm CFA

दूषित पेयजल से मौतें: चेतावनियों की अनदेखी की भारी कीमत

इंदौर को वर्षों से स्वच्छ शहर के रूप में प्रचारित किया जाता रहा है, लेकिन जनवरी 2026 की शुरुआत में सामने आई घटनाएं इस दावे की भयावह सच्चाई उजागर करती है। दूषित पेयजल पीने...

Read more January 12, 2026 at 2:53 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

ANALYSIS OF THE SUSTAINABLE HARNESSING AND ADVANCEMENT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR TRANSFORMING INDIA – SHANTI ACT 2025

1.0 Purpose and objectivesThe purpose and objectives of the, inappropriately titled, SHANTI Act are: 2.0 The SHANTI bill enacted by the Parliament without adequate scrutiny 3.0 Endangering not only lives but enforcing untold misery...

Read more December 25, 2025 at 3:13 pm K Ashok Rao

स्मार्ट सिटी’ में डाटा : निजीकरण से कमाई

स्मार्ट सिटीज़ मिशन’ ने डेटा-आधारित शासन के एक नए दौर की शुरुआत करके भारत के शहरों को पुनर्जीवित करने का वादा किया था। इसमें कहा गया था कि ऐप्स के ज़रिए डेटा का उपयोग करके...

Read more December 7, 2025 at 6:22 pm Khaliq Parkar

कॉरिडोर में कृष्ण : ‘कुंज गलियों’ का पर्यटन

15 मई 2025 को, भारत के सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने उत्तरप्रदेश सरकार को मथुरा के बांके बिहारी मंदिर के आसपास 5 एकड़ भूमि अधिग्रहित करने की अनुमति दी थी, ताकि ‘कॉरिडोर विकास परियोजना’ को आगे बढ़ाया जा सके। इस ‘अवसंरचनात्मक परियोजना’ को न्यायोचित ठहराने के लिए 2022 की...

Read more November 22, 2025 at 6:35 pm Nishita Banerjee, Krishanu and Pavithra Chandrasekar

स्मार्ट सिटी योजना’ : पूंजी के लिए ‘प्राइवेट पार्टनर

साल 2015 में लॉन्च किए जाते समय ‘स्मार्ट सिटीज मिशन’ का उद्देश्य 100 शहरी क्षेत्रों का चयन करके उनके बुनियादी ढांचे को चमकदार बनाया जाना और निवासियों को बेहतर प्रशासनिक दक्षता उपलब्ध करवाने में सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी का उपयोग प्रस्तावित था। ‘शहरी...

Read more November 3, 2025 at 6:04 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

Crores spent, Smart Cities Mission leaves behind more bills, superficial infrastructure

The decade-long programme to transform India’s cities was driven mostly by Central and state funding and invested little in the social well-being of citizens. The Smart Cities Mission, launched in June 2015 under the...

Read more October 28, 2025 at 5:22 pm Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India

Implementing projects through Special Purpose Vehicles altered the balance between the levels of government with a centralising vision and control. When the Indian government announced the Smart City Mission 10 years ago, it mandated...

Read more October 28, 2025 at 5:14 pm Marie Hélène Zérah

स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं तक सभी की पहुंच सुनिश्चित हो

भारत के संविधान का अनुच्छेद 21 जीवन और व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता के मौलिक अधिकार की गारंटी देता है और राज्य के नीति निर्देशक सिद्धांत (अनुच्छेद 38, 39, 42, 43 और 47) स्वास्थ्य के अधिकार को...

Read more April 7, 2025 at 12:01 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Holding financiers accountable for bankrolling big hydro projects

Teesta Stage III dam — one of the biggest hydropower dams in India — was entirely wiped out by last year’s devastating glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). Hydropower projects, often despite their documented environmental...

Read more December 5, 2024 at 8:37 am Amitanshu Verma

100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts

A hundred days isn’t really enough to evaluate the policies of a regime pertaining to finance and economy, but it is enough so far as to get the drift. And an overview of the...

Read more October 9, 2024 at 10:00 pm CFA

The Budget That Didn’t Deliver: Unpacking the Budget 2024-25

The first budget of the NDA government seem to have heavily constrained with coalition compulsions, attempt to recognise the real issues on the ground and a response to the Mandate 2024. Yet, it manage...