Fiscal discipline is crucial for effective governance and economic stability (Dollery et al 2020). It can be enforced through fiscal rules, which enhance transparency and prevent irresponsible ...

This shift has come nearly a decade after the last base revision made in 2015, owing to the non-availability of any consumer expenditure survey after 2011–12.

The Household Social Consumption on Health report for January–December 2025, brought out by the National Statistical Office, offers important insights into India’s health sector. The report, the ...

Vijay is starting with a clean slate. He has an opportunity to do something more radical and change Indian politics fundamentally: to reform political funding.

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In Bahraich district of eastern Uttar Pradesh, an unpublicised moral transformation is taking shape. Without officially converting to Buddhism, Dalit families are reconfiguring social and ritual life ...

As of early 2026, the question of the pending membership of Ukraine dominates international reporting concerning the borders of the European Union (EU). The website of the European Commission listed2 ...

His claim that “laughter is a disease infecting happiness” finds new relevance in the world of stand-up comedy, where humour, commodified and packaged for mass consumption, serves as both escape and ...

Existing attempts at decolonising political theory include expanding the canon to include anti-colonial, non-Western, and other counter-hegemonic voices, locating the conceptual links between ...

The poem narrates the emotional journey of a parent navigating their child’s transition, specifically the concept of “the dead name” and the struggle to embrace a new affirmed identity. “To My ...

At the time of writing this, the rupee has slid past ₹95.7 to the dollar. The government’s chief economic advisor says the rupee is undervalued, and that is probably correct.At the time of writing ...

Our objective in this brief note—based on publicly available data—is to show that there has been no such thing as the petrodollar, and that although the US dollar’s dominance has been eroding for some ...