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Guest Column| Steel frame to cautious core: Bureaucracy in age of change

India, Nov. 22 -- In the early decades after Independence, India's bureaucracy was celebrated as the "steel frame" of the Republic, disciplined, confident, and bold in implementing the national vision... Read More


Guest column: Panjab University's call for autonomy, accountability and academic renewal

India, Nov. 16 -- Panjab University, Chandigarh, is witnessing an agitation unlike any in its long and distinguished history. For the first time, students are not protesting for fee reductions, hostel... Read More


Guest Column| Punjab's migration crisis demands policy rethink

India, Nov. 7 -- Punjab's tryst with migration began in tragedy. The Partition of 1947 dislocated millions, tearing apart families, communities, and livelihoods. The subsequent reorganisation of state... Read More


Guest Column| Control and collapse: New challenges of governance

India, Oct. 22 -- India's governance stands at an inflection point. At the national level, a strong and centralised leadership dominates the political and administrative machinery with unmatched contr... Read More


Guest Column| Punjab's floods: Tipping point of unshared burden

India, Oct. 4 -- When the rains came to Punjab in August-September, they came with an intensity that the state had not seen in decades. Torrents poured down over the upper catchments, rivers swelled b... Read More