At the halfway mark of the 2019 elections, Shankkar Aiyar reminds readers of the pressing problems plaguing India, including construction non-completion, banking sector mishaps, and the ever-present danger of drought. ...

Prime minister’s pre-election gambit risks backfiring by driving up inflation

The continuous plight of Indian farmers irrespective of the Governments in power or robust agricultural growth.

This World Economic Forum piece explains: "Children whose mothers own land are more than 30 percent less likely to be severely underweight than children of women who do not own land."

Recent developments illustrate the unintended outcomes of a complex governance system for rural-urban and local-state governance authorities.  

"The land market crisis is actually a labour market crisis. The problem is our inability to create enough non-farm jobs".