Shrirupa Sengupta and Dr. Prof. Sudha Chandrashekar
Congratulations to Shrirupa Sengupta and Dr. Prof. Sudha Chandrashekar on being appointed as the CEOs of Swasti, The Health Catalyst.
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Nisha Gupta
Nisha Gupta Appointed Director, Centre for Health Economics at NCAER Congratulations to Nisha G. on her appointment as Director of the Centre for Health Economics at NCAER.
WHAT HAPPENS TO WOMEN AFTER WORKFORCE EXIT
The Career Break That Often Becomes Permanent In March 2026, the Periodic Labour Force Survey’s annual report recorded the Worker Population Ratio for Indian women aged 15 and above at 38.8 per cent. For men, the same figure was 76.6 per cent. Among women not in the labour force, 44.4 per cent cited child care…
SHASHI SHEKHAR The Water that Sustains Life
There’s a type of courage you don’t always notice, but it takes real guts and a special kind of patience: the courage to challenge the system from inside. Think about the researcher who puts out findings nobody wants to hear, or the judge who gives an unpopular verdict. Then there’s the administrator who tells the…
FCRA Amendment Bill 2026: Balancing Accountability and Continuity in India’s Development Sector
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, that was placed in Parliament in March 2026 has once again brought the debate on the regulation of foreign-funded organisations in India back into focus. While there is no doubt about the need to increase transparency and accountability of such organisations, the challenge before policymakers is one of…
The Great Derangement A Staple Climate Coursebook
Amitav Ghosh never set out to write a polemic with The Great Derangement. The book started life as the Berlin Family Lectures at the University of Chicago, and you can still feel that origin in its final form: it’s restless, essayistic, and willing to chase an argument wherever it leads. Ghosh roams across literary criticism,…
It’s your money… It’s your India… One word only: Welfare or Development?
Budget Trends: Welfare vs Capital Expenditure Recent Union budgets have explicitly favored capital investment. The table below summarizes Union spending; the capital (capex) share of total expenditure has climbed from ~17% in FY2022-23 to ~23% in FY2026-27. Revenue expenditure (salaries, subsidies, subsidies etc.) has grown more slowly. States, facing rising debt-to-GSDP ratios (>40% in some)…
The Invisible Drop in Every AI Answer
We ask AI for things dozens of times a day without ever once thinking about what it costs the planet to answer me. A recipe idea here, a draft email there, maybe a generated image for a birthday card, a quick summary of a paper we don’t have time to read. It’s so fast, so…
From 0.07% To 1.59%: The Quiet Arithmetic Of Inclusive Entrepreneurship In India
A MECHANICAL ENGINEER FROM HAZARIBAGH Balwant Lal Suman spent over fifteen years as a mechanical engineer before deciding he wanted to build something of his own. From Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, with no inherited capital and no existing network into government procurement, he founded Rigtech Infra, a manufacturing unit producing pipes for infrastructure applications. The dream was…
The Pothole Problem, Solved By Machine: How Nhai Is Rewriting Highway Upkeep
THE MOST UNIVERSAL COMPLAINT ABOUT INDIAN ROADS Ask any regular highway commuter in India what frustrates them most, and pothole-strewn stretches and waterlogged underpasses will almost certainly make the list. Manual maintenance simply cannot keep pace with monsoon damage at the scale of a 1.46-lakh-kilometre national highway network. Ahead of the 2026 monsoon season, NHAI…