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Essay

A Pandemic as a Political Reality Check

G. Vijay and Ajay Gudavarthy

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought governments and their policies under scrutiny. In India, daily official bulletins talk about the numbers of persons infected, cured, or dead. Official statements through the media provide governments’ views on how the pandemic is being managed. Public reactions, for their part, are a mixture of expectations and ...

Resources

COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates by the Government of India and the World Health Organization [HTML and PDFs]

This is a compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, from January 17, 2020, and the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, links to other important official communication/advisories are provided.(Last updated: May 3, 2020, 6.45 p.m., IST)

Women and Men in India 2019 [PDF 2.02 MB]

"The National Statistical Office has been bringing out "Women and Men in India" as an annual publication since 1995 and the current issue is the ...

EnviStats India 2020: Vol. I – Environment Statistics [PDF 12.23 MB]

The full text of the EnviStats India 2020: Vol. I – Environment Statistics [PDF] can be accessed below.

Migratory birds at Nalbana Bird Sanctuary in Chilika, Odisha. File photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty.

Lecture: A Prime Minister and a Naturalist

Jairam Ramesh

Text of a lecture delivered at Janki Devi Memorial College by Jairam Ramesh, MP, at New Delhi on March 5, 2020.

Video: The Making of Independent India and V.K. Krishna Menon

Video: Healers or Predators? Healthcare Corruption in India

Video: Private Advice, Public Interest : Democracy and India's Permanent Executive

Romila Thapar- In Her Own Words

Information as Empowerment

Cooperative and Competitive Federalism to Foster Reform: The Case of the Power Sector

Annual Lecture No.1

Panel discussion on The Union Budget 2017

Current Issues

Protesters forming a human chain at the Raj Ghat against the CAA and the NRC on January 30, 2020. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Indifference in the Time of Political Repression

Jharna Pathak

1. Background Right-wing populism has, of late, shaken the very foundations of democracy in various countries including Ukraine, Brazil, Russia, and ...

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State of India's Birds, 2020: Range, Trends and Conservation Status

The State of India's Birds report can be accessed through the following links: Press Release - State of India's Birds 2020 [PDF 55.2 KB] Source: ...

Issue Brief

Uniform Civil Code: The Importance of an Inclusive and Voluntary Approach

The Hindu

It’s about food, nutrition and livelihood security

M.S. Swaminathan and Nitya Rao

Farmers’ cooperation, technological upgrading and favourable public policies can help India deal with the pandemic

BusinessLine

Editorial

India’s lockdown is running up an unsustainable economic cost

A strategy that focusses on intensifying testing and possibly curbs on the vulnerable population, while allowing the rest to resume economic activity with the necessary precautions, must be workerd out

FrontLine

COVER STORY

In search of a strategy

T.K. Rajalakshmi

There is a lack of clarity on the epidemiological basis for the extension of the lockdown and an information gap at various levels on containment procedures.

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Policy Report No. 27

Farmer Producer Companies: Preliminary Studies on Efficiency and Equity from Maharashtra

Girija Shankar

In recent years, the concept of Farmer Producer Company (FPC) has gained the attention of researchers. Though relatively new in India and still in an emerging phase in Maharashtra, these FPCs are being viewed as a possible replacement for the old cooperative model and taken the form of new moveme ...

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