Enabling a Right to Education of Choice: Homeschooling in India

Popular imagination about school education in India is centred on children studying either in government schools or mainstream private schools that follow the conventional classroom teaching model. However, increasingly…

Loans Go Bad

The Nirav Modi scam has brought to light the glaring inefficiencies crippling the Indian banking industry. With public sector banks having a predominant role in this crisis, money continues to be pumped into these sick banks merely by virtue of their bureaucratic patronage. Mohit Satyanand, in this…

Why We Need A Swatantra Party in Present Day India

Advocating for limited government and protection of individual liberty, Rajaji founded the Swatantra Party in 1959- providing an alternative to the socialist regime dominating the poitical theatre at the time. In this article, Sadaf Hussain…

Do We Really Need Board Exams?

In the following article, published in The Quint on 12 April, 2016, Parth J. Shah, addressing the Karnataka State Board exam paper leak, questions the validity and relevance of Board Exams in today’s world and advocates for the introduction of common aptitude tests for…

Chai, Pani aur Globalisation

As globalisation takes root around the world, protectionist tendencies have grown stronger than ever. In an attempt to counter the fearful reputation that it has garnered for itself, Sadaf Hussain recounts the benefits that were borne out of India’s liberalisation and absolve it…

I Am Not A Parent, But Mine Ensured That I’m Not A Miscast!

Freedom of Movement

As immigration and free movement of people gains ground in public debates around the world, Jai Venaik, from Samriddhi Foundation, analyses the economic implications of India and Nepal’s 1950 Friendship Treaty.

The Co-Relation of Rising Expenditure, Currency and Interest Rates on the Market

Taking cue from the Nepal Budget (FY 2017/18), Jay Venaik from Samriddhi Foundation, tries to explain how foreign investment could be brought into the Nepalese economy, so as to decrease…

End of Time?

The following is a short excerpt from “Freedom to Express and Offend” by Ravi Shanker Kapoor, where he succinctly counters the assertion that “freedom of expression shall be curtailed lest it offends or hurts the sentiments of people” and quotes the eloquent Bertrand Russell on the subject.