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Can India's Election Commission Pass the Gandhian Test of Public Integrity?

New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- The Election Commission of India is not an ordinary government department. It is a constitutional institution entrusted with something more fundamental than conducting elections: ... Read More


Manipur's Displaced Still Waiting for Home: Crisis Resolution Needs to Move From Relief to Restoration

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in India's northeastern border state of Manipur, thousands of people remain displaced from their homes. The numbers have fall... Read More


The Political Biography of a Former Chief Minister: A Life That Mirrors Mizoram

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- The Boy from Zarkawt, and the Making of Mizoram is ostensibly a political biography. In reality, it is something more ambitious: an account of how a society moved from insurgenc... Read More


Indian Artillery: Speed of Acquisition Is as Important for Readiness as Technology

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- At the DEFCON 2026 in New Delhi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that India has moved from "deterrence by denial" to "deterrence by punishment" - in other words, from primar... Read More


The Empty Chair at Islamabad: When Taliban Saw Women's Rights Subordinated by Islamic Law

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Nearly 200 delegates gathered in Islamabad this July for the ninth Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ministerial Conference on Women. Among the fifty-seven flags on display, o... Read More


Capital Crime - and the Anatomy of Impunity in India

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- After almost every major episode of violence in India, we witness a familiar cycle. There is shock, followed by protest, television debates, political statements, and an enormou... Read More


Growth of Underground Economy and Rising Income Disparity is a Social Concern in Sri Lanka

New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Sri Lanka is slowly emerging out of its worst economic crisis. As part of the initiatives to stabilize the economy, the government has commenced many programs to combat corrupti... Read More


Who Defines Where Home is? Confronting Partition Trauma and its Aftermath Eight Decades Later

New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- This past June, an elderly man was found stranded in no-man's land on the Bangladesh-India border. For 24 hours, he and his nationality were shoved from one flank to the other. ... Read More


Why Dhaka and Delhi Must Find Common Ground - and Their Shared Space

New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- The old political bargain has run its course. The most important question in the current Bangladesh-India relationship is perhaps not simply whether India will send Sheikh Hasin... Read More


From Infrastructure to Investment: Building West Bengal's Next Growth Cycle

New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- For years, the economic debate in West Bengal has returned to the same prescription: better roads, stronger ports, reliable power, industrial parks and improved logistics. Infra... Read More