The previous terms of this government have been heavily centred on raising capital expenditure at the cost of essential welfare spending.

During the pandemic, most state budgets, due to swelling healthcare costs, were stretching thin and as a result accumulated higher deficits. The Union government stepped in to provide support, but a lot of the help was too little, too late.

Its success will hinge on addressing implementation challenges, especially for smaller banks, and ensuring transparent fund management.

While the bloc’s performance in Jharkhand is welcome, building a national alternative to the BJP will take more than small victories like these.

One also needs to recognise how the Nobel values popularity in academic work and its reach.

The mapping of core issues on which people vote can lead to their sustained centralisation in discourses.

To break free, India needs to invest heavily in education and skill development, ensuring its workforce is ready to compete on the global stage.

The World Development Report 2024 casts a dismal picture of India’s growth trajectory. The report states that it would take us nearly 75 years to set foot outside the threshold of the middle-income trap, our economy is currently embroiled in.

India’s political opposition, strengthened by the recent Lok Sabha electoral performance, needs to ensure there is enough political pressure now on the Modi government to seriously pursue the charges levied against the SEBI chairperson.

Although the Union Budget 2024-25 aims to promote macro-growth and fiscal stability, its approach to welfare for the poor relies on limited entitlements, and the success of new schemes hinges on effective implementation of policies — a challenge given the government's history of delayed projects.

The government's agenda in the last 10 years on the economic front has been less to do with sound economic principles but more to do with electoral strategies combined with a pro-oligarchic capital wealth creation for certain businesses. 

Exam paper leaks cause immense damage to the psychological state of India’s younger generation in pursuit of a better, more progressive future.

There are three key structural issues that may continue to afflict India’s economic as well as broader political economy landscape that lies ahead despite the NDA's win.

The rise of people-led movements and leaders like Arvind Kejriwal may alter India's political landscape, alongside civil society initiatives.

How the court will look into the discussed evidence of alleged quid pro quo arrangements may well go on to define the future of India’s electoral democracy and transparency in political funding.

Though having a counter-majoritarian role, the Supreme Court remains subjugated, and the clueless and organisationally incohesive INDIA bloc has done nothing to counter the BJP’s move.

Given the lack of political will to prioritise principles, due process, and constitutional integrity, how and to what extent the Commission addresses these issues with an 'independent, non-partisan mandate' will remain a question requiring its own answer.

The discussion must move from being an ego tussle between the Modi government and farmers, into a clear fiscal priority for the government.

What was interesting to see was an implicit acknowledgment made by the finance minister of the government’s reassurance to working for the progressive development of the most ignored sections of the Modi government’s fiscal policy: the poor, the youth, women and farmers of the nation.

As India celebrates its 75th Republic Day, we must refresh the essence of our constitution’s basic structure and moral values