1920: The Year Indian Railways Discovered the State

By: Surbhi Tandon (Communicating Reality Intern, CCS)

Indian Railways is unsafe, unclean and of low quality. And we’ve given up; India is in a state of learned helplessness. Indians live merrily with filthy…

Yeşilçam and Bollywood

By: Udita Singh (Communicating Reality Intern, CCS)

Yesilcam, yes that is what they call Turkey’s film industry. The word “industry” is slightly misleading though, for Turkish films microscopically look at life in nuanced ways rather than mass produce movies.

Market for Views in India

By: Surbhi Tandon (CCS, Intern)

The Murdochs story gives us one loud and clear message: don’t trust great men for “great men make great mistakes”. Fortunately the market for news and views is not a monopoly of the few, at least not in India. Fortunately we…

Poverty and Support for Terror: A Negative Relation

Mumbai hit by terrorism yet again. As India’s political analysts discuss how to best tackle the menace of terrorism, we bring you an interesting article which essentially says empirical evidence contradicts the basic assumption behind the…

Let’s Culture the Scheduled Castes/Tribes

By: Ishu Kumar and Udita Singh (CCS Interns)

The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has sanctioned “etiquette” classes for the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes students. What is striking is that the classes are meant exclusively…

India’s Great Free-Market Economist

Today we bring you an interesting piece by Chandrasekaran Balakrishnan (Planning Commission, New Delhi) on B R Shenoy, first Indian economist to publish in an academic economics journal

End of an Era — Harry Potter

By: Snigdha Jain (Communicating Reality Intern, CCS)

“Magic cannot bring dead people back to life…. Once you’re dead, you’re dead.” — J.K. Rowling, WBUR radio interview, 1999