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India’s middle‑class crisis: the great bifurcation and the Gen Z uprising

India’s Middle-Class Crisis The student protests we have been witnessing in India can be explained in large part by the crisis facing the Indian middle class,...

How our post-Nepal disaster remittance is crucial climate action

  On 26th August, across the Nepal-Tibet border, what seems like a sudden ice-rock avalanche or glacier collapse sent massive volumes of debris and water...

This Independence Day, let’s fix India’s broken ladder

India’s broken ladder Every 15 August, India celebrates freedom. The flags go up, the tricolour flies from balconies, schoolchildren sing Vande Mataram and political leaders...

Gold in Glasgow. Billions in Ahmedabad.

Australia-India sports collaboration As Australian athletes topped the medal tally at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the country's sports industry has a US$130 billion reason...

The dance of democracy, reprised

  In 2011, I stood at Jantar Mantar as a Delhi University student, placard in hand, shouting for activist Anna Hazare and against a government...

What Pauline Hanson might learn in a World Cup fan zone

Pauline Hanson's monoculture Australia has spent years arguing over national identity: what holds it together, what threatens it, and whether multiculturalism strengthens or weakens social...

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