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Governance

PURA: Kalam's vision of urban amenities for rural India, and the Rurban Mission that replaced it

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's PURA promised city-grade amenities in villages through public-private partnership. It faded by 2014 and the Rurban Mission took its place. The vision, the two pilots, the PPP model, and the mains lessons.

1 October 2026 · 16 min read

Agriculture

Food Processing: India's Sunrise Sector

Scope, significance and constraints of food processing, the upstream-downstream framework, PMKSY, PMFME and PLI, the AMUL template and the KERA coconut model.

29 September 2026 · 18 min read

Indian Society

Whose Womb, Whose Right? Surrogacy Law and Ethics in India

India went from the world's surrogacy bazaar to an altruistic-only law. The Surrogacy and ART Acts of 2021, landmark judgments, ethics and global models explained.

29 September 2026 · 27 min read

Economy

Building the Nation: Infrastructure, PPP Models and the Energy Transition

Roads, railways, ports, airports, power: how India finances, builds and runs its infrastructure, PPP models, Gati Shakti, UDAN, Sagarmala and the 51% non-fossil energy milestone.

28 September 2026 · 69 min read

International Relations

India-Bhutan: the model neighbourhood partnership

The neighbourhood's model relationship: the 1949 treaty, Doklam and the Siliguri Corridor, hydropower interdependence and Bhutan's boundary talks with China.

27 September 2026 · 11 min read

Governance

Citizen participation: from beneficiaries to partners in governance

Jan sunwais, participatory budgeting, ward committees and MyGov: the models that turn citizens from welfare beneficiaries into governance partners, and the seven sins that keep participation cosmetic.

27 September 2026 · 19 min read

Governance

Self-help groups and microfinance: banking on collectives

From NABARD’s 1992 bank-linkage experiment to 10 crore women in the DAY-NRLM fold, self-help groups are India’s own financial-inclusion innovation. The SHG model, Kudumbashree, the Andhra microfinance lesson and SHGs as social capital.

27 September 2026 · 22 min read

Governance

Prisons and custodial justice: reforming India’s jails

India’s prisons run at 131 per cent capacity with three-fourths of inmates still awaiting trial. The overcrowding crisis, the undertrial tragedy, the D.K. Basu safeguards and the Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2023.

27 September 2026 · 17 min read

Governance

Police reforms: the unfinished agenda from Prakash Singh to SMART policing

Governed by an 1861 colonial Act and seven binding Supreme Court directives that states keep diluting, the police remain India’s most visibly unreformed institution. The Prakash Singh judgment, the Model Police Act, and why reform stalls.

27 September 2026 · 19 min read

Governance

Good governance in India: from the World Bank definition to the Indian model

The World Bank’s 1992 definition, the UNDP’s eight principles, India’s journey from entitlement-based to rights-based governance, and the post-2014 Minimum Government push.

27 September 2026 · 35 min read

Polity

Comparing Constitutions: India, the United States and Britain

How India's Constitution compares with the American and British models: parliamentary versus presidential, federal versus unitary, rigid versus flexible, and who guards rights.

27 September 2026 · 30 min read

Polity

Against Exploitation, for Faith: Articles 23 to 28

Articles 23 to 28 decoded: the war on trafficking, begar and child labour, the architecture of religious freedom, and India's model of principled-distance secularism.

27 September 2026 · 29 min read