The government’s fertiliser subsidy crowds out private investment in the sector, is a disincentive for production efficiency ...

Radha Malani is a Research Analyst in the Fiscal Governance & Architecture Team at the Centre for Social & Economic Progress.

India produces about 72 billion litres of sewage per day but has the capacity to treat only 37% of it, and actually treats ...

A quarter century since the first public smoking bans came into place, smoking still leads to about 1 million deaths every ...

Kachchh: In the semi-arid landscape of Kachchh in Gujarat, farmers have traditionally practised Ram-Mol, or multi-cropping, to sustain through the harshest times. Kachchh is characterised by harsh ...

Ram-Mol involves cultivation of up to seven crops in order to leverage soil nutrition and mitigate climate losses, but the laborious system is seeing... Farmers say they don’t earn enough from farming ...

Ram-Mol involves cultivation of up to seven crops in order to leverage soil nutrition and mitigate climate losses, but the laborious system is seeing ...

New Delhi: Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in ...

Bengaluru: The Census is now four years overdue, and the budget for the exercise has been slashed indicating further delays. This is even as millions of Indians are left without access to subsidised ...

Gurugram, New Delhi and Noida: Why do large private hospitals in India track global oil prices and regime changes around the world? As the preferred tertiary healthcare provider to many unwell people ...

Romita Saluja is an independent journalist, exploring the themes of development, gender, labour, trafficking, health, and human rights. Her writing includes longform investigations, narrative ...