With the 2030 deadline for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) fast approaching, India finds itself in a complicated position. Looking closely at the country’s progress shows a mix of massive success in infrastructure alongside deep inequalities between different states and a huge funding problem. The latest UN Sustainable Development Report 2026 places India at the…
The UN’s methane roadmap sets ambitious 2030 targets, but India’s absence from the Global Methane Pledge reflects the challenge of balancing climate action with food security.
Back a couple of years, it would have been more of a science fiction or a joke to say that the “wellbeing” of an AI model is an issue. It’s a research line item 2026. Both companies, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, have started hiring philosophers and consciousness researchers to examine the question of whether current…
A NUMBER THAT SOUNDS SMALL UNTIL YOU BUY GROCERIES 3.9%. Said out loud, India’s May 2026 headline inflation figure sounds almost reassuring. It is comfortably below the Reserve Bank of India’s 4% medium-point target and below market expectations of 4% as well. But headline inflation numbers, by design, average away the specific pain points that…
When the India AI Impact Summit wrapped up in New Delhi this February, the headline numbers were about investment: over $200 billion in commitments, a $15 billion data centre hub from Google in Visakhapatnam, and a national AI market expected to grow from roughly $9.5 billion in 2024 to $130 billion by 2032. Less discussed,…
A BILL THAT ALREADY FAILED ONCE, COMING BACK FOR ROUND TWO Most legislation that fails to pass quietly disappears from the agenda, reworked or abandoned. The Delimitation Bill, 2026 and its companion Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, are taking the harder path. The central government is now actively preparing to reintroduce both pieces of legislation when…
From a young age we’re taught that lying is wrong. But the disturbing fact is that deception is one of the oldest and most effective strategies in nature, and one of the most tacitly crucial pieces of the social ecology of human life. Before the dawn of man, organisms were bending, hiding, and distorting information…
On January 1, 2026, delivery workers across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru walked off the job. The strike was nationwide. It was also historic. For the first time, India’s gig workforce collectively demanded dignity, regulation, and accountability from the platforms that run their lives. On 21 November 2025, the Government of India brought the four Labour…
RAISED VOICES IN A ROOM BUILT FOR DECORUM Closed-door meetings between a sitting president and his own party’s senators are, by design and tradition, supposed to stay closed-door. The disagreements aired privately, unity projected publicly. That arrangement broke down on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, when President Trump’s meeting with Republican senators turned visibly, audibly testy,…
THE TENTH TIME WAS THE CHARM Some legislative votes pass on the first attempt. This one took ten. On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, the United States Senate voted 50-48 to adopt a war powers resolution directing President Trump to remove US armed forces from hostilities with Iran. The first time in ten separate attempts since…
