India's Carbon Credit Programmes Must Be Designed for Smallholder Farmers
Banda Sainath, ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region
18 Aug 2026
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How India's EV Transition Could Redraw Global Mineral Demand
Deepjyoti Das, Independent Researcher and Consultant; Maria Ljunggren, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Pradip P. Kalbar, IIT Bombay
16 Aug 2026
The 130:1 Imbalance in India's Family Planning Programme
Anumeha Saxena, IIM Ahmedabad; Karan Babbar, XLRI Jamshedpur
14 Aug 2026
Building Transboundary Adaptation in the Bay of Bengal
Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)
12 Aug 2026
Beyond Paraquat: Building an Adaptive, Evidence-Based Pesticide Regulatory Framework for India
A. Amarender Reddy, ICAR-National Institute of Biotic Stress Management (NIBSM)
11 Aug 2026
Quality Control Orders and India's Manufacturing Ambitions
Komal Kanwar Shekhawat, NITI Aayog; Kannan Kumar, Centre for Social and Economic Progress
10 Aug 2026
Odisha’s Millets Mission: Rethinking Policy by Design
Md Sahidul Islam, VAMNICOM; Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, IRMA & School of Governance Development and Policy, “Tribhuvan” Sahkari University
08 Aug 2026
Why Mature Health Systems Need New Measures of Decentralisation
Megha Jacob, TERI School of Advanced Studies; Sukanya Das, TERI School of Advanced Studies
04 Aug 2026
Why Caste Inequality Persists Despite Greater Mobility
Sudeshna Maitra, York University
02 Aug 2026
The Hidden Geography of Hypertension Among Muslim Women
Zeenat Hashmi, IIT Bombay; Ashish Singh, IIT Bombay
28 Jul 2026
Why Similar Climate Risks Produce Different Outcomes for Women
Saif Nihal, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Anjali Sharma, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Amit Mitra, Independent Research Consultant ...
24 Jul 2026
Bigger Firms, Smaller Factories: The Declining Productive Scale in Indian Manufacturing
Shailender Kumar Hooda, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)
22 Jul 2026
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