Author Archives: Editorial Team
Is India ready for the economic refugees fleeing from Sri Lanka to its shores?
An island nation of 22 million people and home to diverse cultures, languages and ethnicities, Sri Lanka is currently undergoing the worst economic crisis it has ever experienced in its…
Architecting a Regulatory Framework for Cryptocurrencies in India
The government as well as the RBI have recently again expressed their intention to ban cryptocurrencies. Instead of adopting such a counterproductive approach, the government must deftly weave together an…
Why invest in Preventive Care?
Healthcare is concerned with individual patients’ disease diagnoses and treatment. Public health is concerned with the prevention of diseases and the promotion of good health for an entire population. While…
Inclusive Education for the Future: Panel discussion highlights challenges for people with physical and learning disabilities
On the 15th of June, the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) in collaboration with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) Regional office in New Delhi organized a Webinar on the impact…
Organic debacle in Sri Lanka has policy lessons for India
Failure of the fertilizer ban imposed by Sri Lanka holds lessons on how to conduct public policy Sri Lanka is currently going through its worst economic crisis with shortages of…
An Ode to Mithali Raj: Not Out!
What turns a country’s love for a sport into sheer fanaticism? What makes a sport, part of an entire nation’s identity? How does a game become the most sustainable escape…
The Work From Home “Revolution” – The Future is Now.
At the turn of the 21st century, there were talks of several ‘revolutions’; including but not limited to the biotechnology, nanotechnology, 3-D printing revolutions. However, after two decades, these technologies…
Legal lawlessness
Authors note on usage: I have used 'Law' to refer to the abstract concept and 'law' to its concrete expression. State laws vs the rule of Law “..ultimately law is…
Where Swaminathan Aiyer is wrong about the Chinese “Industrial Policy”
Swaminathan Aiyer had recently, in his popular column swaminomics, while commenting on Government of India’s PLI scheme commented that, “India aims to copy China in what economists call “industrial policy”…..…
Compassion Fatigue: Surviving in the post Covid culture.
Compassion fatigue is a kind of stress that results from helping or wanting to help those who are traumatized or under significant emotional duress. Frequently though mistakenly, compassion fatigue is…