Briefings
Ebola Outbreak in Congo: Fastest on Record
Congo’s Health Ministry said Ebola cases have reached 3,262, with 1,437 deaths reported, putting the outbreak close to the scale of the country’s largest previous Ebola crisis.
Author
Ashwani Kumar
History
145 Years of Hans Fischer: The Nobel Chemist Who Linked Blood and Chlorophyll
On the 145th anniversary of his birth, revisit how Hans Fischer's 1930 Nobel Prize-winning work proved that the pigments in blood and chlorophyll share the same chemical structure.
History
11 Years Since APJ Abdul Kalam: Remembering India's Missile Man
On the 11th anniversary of his death, revisit the life of APJ Abdul Kalam, the scientist behind India's early satellite and missile programs who became its most beloved President.
Analysis
The Mekong River Commission: Basin Governance Without the Basin's Largest Player
The Mekong River Commission stands as the sole treaty-based organization for the transboundary basin, yet China's absence and internal sovereignty constraints leave the river's ecology vulnerable to uncoordinated upstream development.
Analysis
India's Pharmaceutical Reckoning: How Regulatory Compromise in Drug Manufacturing Still Put Lives at Risk
India is the third-largest pharmaceutical producer in the world, yet its quality-assurance system is dangerously strained. A new wave of compliance deadlines is forcing a long-delayed reckoning.
Analysis
The Urea Subsidy Trap: How India's Fertilizer Policy Keeps Wearing Out the Soil It Was Built to Protect
India spends more than a lakh crore rupees a year keeping urea artificially cheap. The imbalance it creates has gotten so bad that the government's own Economic Survey is now arguing to undo it.
Case Studies
The Hollowing of the Union: A Multi-Dimensional Case Study of India's Transition from Cooperative to Coercive Federalism (1992–2026)
Has India transitioned from cooperative to coercive federalism? This comprehensive case study explores three decades of constitutional, fiscal, and political developments that have transformed Centre-State relations, raising critical questions about the future of India's federal democracy.
Analysis
India's Gaokao Problem
The question everyone asks is which exam is harder. The question nobody asks is what happens to the person who fails. In China, they likely still get a seat. In India, they get nothing.