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St. Petersburg: In a Time Warp All its Own
[An account of my fascinating recent visit to St. Petersburg, Russia] Growing up in Communist Calcutta in the late eighties and early nineties, Russia (or the USSR as it was then) was the ‘good foreign...
View ArticleReflections from Rio
[ A guest post by Aashish Khullar. Aashish is a resident fellow at Community Caring Institute (CCI) and a Startingbloc fellow and a research associate at Center for the Advancement of the Steady State...
View ArticleBlundered Pride
[What a current alcohol advert featuring Priyanka Chopra says about India- Ashish Jaiswal, Associate Fellow, Oxford Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, reflects.] That I am writing this with...
View ArticleOpinion Explosion in Indian Social Media – A Driver for Real Change or Just a...
[A guest post by Nandana Sengupta. Nandana is a doctoral candidate in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University] The last few months have been brimming with activism amongst middle class Indians making...
View ArticleThe Delhi Rape: Some Thoughts
I thought I had been sufficiently shocked hearing of the horrendous rape of the young woman on the Delhi bus. But the responses and actions by the government and those in power have shocked me even...
View ArticleWhen the Boys grew Up
[Suharsh Sinha on the Delhi rape] Once, a bunch of young boys aged 5-7 were playing in their backyard when a young pup appeared. At first the boys were fascinated with it. They played with it, fed it...
View ArticleLet’s talk about what Nandy really said
They say we live in a post-Darwinian world, and if you live in India, you would never doubt it. Here survival of the fittest has been replaced simply by survival of the richest. It is a dog-eat-dog...
View ArticleKitna Paisa, Kiske Haath? (How much money, in whose hands?)
[A guest post by Kartik Akileswaran and Arvind Nair. Arvind and Kartik are graduate students at the Harvard Kennedy School studying public administration and international development. Kartik has a...
View ArticleA disappointing end to the Budget suspense
Guest post by Nida Ali Slowing economic growth, a bloated government deficit and a desperate need to boost investment. Such were the grim circumstances under which Finance Minister P Chidambaram...
View ArticleReveal the Lemons- Speak up for Consumer Rights
[Sulzhan Bali and Venkat Kuppuswamy write on personal shopping travails on World Consumer Rights Day] A bride-to be dressed in lehenga and fleets is sitting on a dharna outside a showroom in one of...
View ArticleBurgeoning Delhi Rapes: Some Reflections
[Guest Post by Latika Vashist and Amit Bindal] I. The reason for writing this piece is the feeling of utter failure to comprehend the cultures of rape that engulf us. Even as the...
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Land Acquisition: What would Ronald Coase have to say?
Let us consider a common scenario that arises when you travel by air. A lot of people like to complain about airline passengers who recline, taking away precious knee-room. A possible solution to...
View ArticleOrgan Transplantation and the Culture of Alienability of the Female Body
This is a guest post by Jinal Dadiya (BCL Candidate at Exeter College, Oxford University) Despite an internationally felt need for the availability of more organs for medical transplantation, the sale...
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Sex and the City
It’s not the first time the state has decided to punish those who engage in pre-marital sex, which it perceives to be an immoral, value- devoid, hedonistic, large-scale- social –disintegration- of...
View ArticleWhy America Will Grow
This is a guest post by Jai Vipra. The author is a Master of Public Policy Candidate (2017) at Oxford. The author can be reached at jaivipra@gmail.com. Too many commentators write about India as if it...
View ArticleWomen in Salim-Javed movies: the un-taming of the shrew
Guest post by Suharsh Sinha The Bollywood of 50s and 60s was a genteel place. Leading men were chivalrous, women were pious and beautiful and the songs were written by stalwarts like Sahir, Shailendra...
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