Explained Archive
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Counting Caste: The Promise and Peril of India's Next Census
As India tests methods for its first full caste enumeration since 1931, the debate intensifies over how to collect the data and what to do with it, balancing social justice imperatives with the risks of reifying identity.
The New West Asia: Understanding Iran's Resurgence and Its Implications for India
Following a direct military confrontation with the U.S. and Israel and the death of its Supreme Leader, Iran is projecting a new resilience. What does this shift mean for the region's security architecture, and what are the strategic choices before New Delhi?
The Geopolitical Firewall: How India Built Economic Resilience Against Global Shocks
A deep-dive into the strategic, diplomatic, and domestic policy measures that insulated the Indian economy from the 2026 West Asia energy crisis, transforming a historical vulnerability into a demonstration of resilience.
Navigating the Turbulence: India's Economic Strategy Amidst the West Asian Crisis
A fragile truce in West Asia offers India a critical window to recalibrate its economic policies. The key challenges lie in managing energy security, fiscal pressures, and agricultural risks while sustaining high growth.
Beyond Cricket and Commonwealth: Deconstructing the India-Australia Strategic Partnership
Driven by geopolitical convergence in the Indo-Pacific and a robust economic agenda, the relationship has moved decisively beyond its historical foundations to encompass defence, technology, and clean energy.
The Cooperative Conundrum: Can a Renewed Policy Push Revitalise India's Grassroots Economy?
Years into a new policy push, a look at the ambitious plan to transform India's vast but ailing cooperative sector, the challenges of centralisation, and the potential impact on the rural economy.
The Right to Vote: A Constitutional Right in India?
For over 70 years, the Supreme Court has held that voting is a statutory right, not a fundamental one. A series of its own judgments, however, have created a constitutional paradox, prompting a re-examination of this foundational tenet of Indian democracy.
India's AI Dilemma: Shaping Global Governance or Following the Lead?
As global powers race to set the rules for Artificial Intelligence, New Delhi finds itself at a crossroads — championing the Global South's interests or aligning with the US-led tech bloc for faster growth. The choice will define its technological future and geopolitical standing.
Urban Deluge: Why Mumbai's Monsoon Crisis is a National Wake-Up Call
As extreme rainfall events paralyse India's financial capital, the crisis reveals a deeper malaise of outdated infrastructure, fragmented governance, and the stark realities of climate change, holding lessons for every Indian city.
The Tenth Schedule's Enduring Challenge: Can India's Anti-Defection Law Be Fixed?
Four decades after its enactment, the anti-defection law is being tested by novel political strategies, raising fundamental questions about its efficacy in ensuring legislative stability and respecting electoral mandates.