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Nepal’s devastating floods reopen the question of who bears responsibility for climate-change induced crises and who pays. theindiaforum.in/forum/nepal…

Opposition parties confronting majoritarian challenges require more than electoral arithmetic. They must develop coherent ideological alternatives, manage factionalism, and cultivate durable relationships with civic actors. theindiaforum.in/politics/in…

Darshana Mitra of @NLSIUofficial wrote earlier this year that there is a lack of legal clarity on what happens to those excluded from the Special Intensive Revisions of electoral rolls across the country. If Assam is any indication, it will be the beginning of a long journey through arbitrary procedures and towards exile. theindiaforum.in/politics/si…

Fieldwork in Delhi’s e-waste economy reveals why India’s EPR regime has not shifted physical flows. Certificate markets monetise documentation, not acquisition prices, letting cash-paying collectors outbid formal recyclers. Only changing prices at the point of acquisition can redirect waste. Aditya Jha writes theindiaforum.in/public-poli…

Indian higher education promises social mobility, but for Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi students, elite campuses often function as spaces of systemic exclusion. From entrance exams to faculty recruitment, how does caste survive in our universities? A thread. 🧵

If India wants to be a technology leader rather than a technology assembler, advanced materials and the raw inputs that go into them have to be treated as a strategic bet. This will yield returns beyond semiconductors. An example of the promise are the emerging uses of metal-halide perovskites. theindiaforum.in/science-and…

Geoengineering is a much-debated and divisive approach to climate change mitigation. Technologies such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection, Marine Cloud Brightening, Direct Air Capture and Storage, and Ocean Fertilisation are increasingly being considered as the challenge of limiting warming becomes more difficult. With 1.5°C of warming now increasingly likely to be exceeded, and 2°C becoming a more realistic possibility, more complex interventions are likely to receive greater attention. However, this creates a Gordian knot of technical, economic and ethical challenges. Can these technologies work without creating severe unintended consequences? Are they economically viable at the necessary scale? And, perhaps most importantly, what consequences are we prepared to accept? The low-hanging fruit remains relatively clear: electrification, energy efficiency, reducing energy consumption, renewable energy and ecosystem restoration. However, as progress on conventional mitigation falls short of what is required, the pressure to consider riskier and more complex solutions will grow. The uncomfortable possibility is that the decision over whether to use geoengineering may eventually be taken out of our hands. @TheIndiaForum theindiaforum.in/science-and…

Bahujan students face hostility in universities but they cannot give up. They must fight to assert their identity, reject being called “non-meritorious”, and master their subjects. In 2019, Aditi Priya (@BahujanEcon) recounted her struggle at DSE and demanded a more compassionate Economics: theindiaforum.in/article/bah…