A viral video circulating on social media platforms highlighting young girls exposing themselves to danger in fetching water amid soaring temperatures in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, has reignited discussions about the issue of rural water scarcity in India. Although great strides have been made through the Jal Jeevan Mission, much still needs to be done. Access…
India’s classrooms are in the middle of a storm. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has mandated a three-language structure for students from Classes 6 to 9, effective the 2026-27 academic session. Under the revised framework, students must study three languages that are R1, R2, and R3 with at least two being Indian languages….
India’s largest school education scheme is facing a quiet funding crisis. Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, the Union government’s flagship programme covering school education from pre-primary to Class 12, is receiving higher headline allocations on paper. But the real story lies beneath the numbers. Even as Budget 2026-27 increased allocations for Samagra Shiksha, budget cuts have resulted…
The Summit That Was Also a Market Arjun Mehta arrived at WAVES 2025 in Mumbai with a portfolio of three animated short films made with his eight-person studio in Hyderabad. He had never pitched to an international buyer before. On the second day of the summit, he met a content acquisition executive from a Southeast…
An Orange Alert warning of thunderstorms, lightning, rainfall, and gale-force winds has been declared in Gautam Budh Nagar. It is important to note that such alerts highlight the growing danger caused by adverse weather conditions and the significance of being alert through early-warning systems, such as Damini and Sachet. There is an announcement from Gautam…
The Number That Measures Everything Else In the summer of 2023, a mid-sized electronics manufacturer in Noida expanded its production line for printed circuit boards, adding capacity for a new category of consumer device that had not existed in any significant volume five years earlier. When this expansion showed up in India’s monthly data, it…
The Country That Did Not Make the Headlines When Prime Minister Modi’s European diplomatic week in May 2026 was discussed in Indian media, the headlines went to the 3rd India-Nordic Summit in Oslo. The meetings were held with the leaders of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, the joint op-ed with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson,…
President Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar paid a visit to the NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA) in Greater Noida, India, on May 31, 2026. The visit, which was accompanied by a high-level ministerial group, offered a chance to highlight India’s accomplishments in renewable energy research and innovation. Senior NTPC executives, including Chairman and Managing…
The Broadcaster That Lost Its Audience and Found a Poet There is a specific kind of institutional crisis that is harder to quantify than financial loss but far more existential: the loss of audience trust. Doordarshan, India’s national television broadcaster, was once the country’s only screen. It shaped the cultural imagination of three generations. It…
The Letter She Read Three Times Ananya Singh from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, sat the Staff Selection Commission exam twice before clearing it. She spent 14 months after clearing the exam waiting for a posting. When she finally received her appointment letter at the 19th Rozgar Mela on May 23, 2026, she read it three times…
