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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicIndian Public Policy

Topic: Indian Public Policy

Viksit Bharat goal needs more than GDP growth. Shift policy from entitlement to empowerment

To strike a balance between equity and efficiency, India needs to view welfare as a transition platform—one that protects the vulnerable while enabling upward mobility.

Who really runs India’s policy? The dangerous grip of sarkar-bazaar nexus

Private actors who do not conform to the government’s vision risk having their work discredited or, in some cases, facing criminal charges and being labelled as ‘anti-national’.

New book aims to make public policy ‘interesting’, equips readers with tools to ask questions

Published by Pengiun India, Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S. Jaitley's 'Missing in Action' will be released on ThePrint's Softcover on 23 January.

Whatever happens with Agnipath scheme, it offers 3 real lessons for future reform

Lack of data, institutional gaps and ill-timed reforms will continue to pose hurdles for policy initiatives in India.

Roe v Wade saga shows India must reform health data policy. Protection, privacy not same

India’s health data policies assume that enabling data sharing and interoperability will lead to desirable outcomes. But this approach comes with its own risks.

On Camera

Badshah’s men say India doesn’t get the hip-hop game. Truth is, misogyny is their normal

That Badshah is misogynistic is not a particularly illuminating observation. The misogyny is a creative condition of his music, as fundamental to it as the buzzy beat drop.

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.