Yamini Aiyar

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Congress needs political ideas to mobilise voters around its ideological project

Organisational question is closely intertwined with the ideological one. What are the key ideological pivots and how does this translates into election narratives that enable grassroots party workers to build social coalitions and mobilise voters.

13 October 2024, 10:05 IST

Congress needs political ideas to mobilise voters around its ideological project

13 October 2024, 10:05 IST

In search of a new federal bargain

Gov-Shastra: The growing disparity in economic and human development between the relatively prosperous southern and western parts of India and the poorer but more populous northern and eastern states is placing strains on long-accepted principles of redistributive tax-sharing.

14 September 2024, 21:43 IST

In search of a new federal bargain

14 September 2024, 21:43 IST

Whither our Right to Work freely anywhere we choose?

Gov-Shastra

20 July 2024, 21:11 IST

Whither our Right to Work freely anywhere we choose?

20 July 2024, 21:11 IST

One nation, many leaks: The wages of ‘maximum govt, minimum governance’

That said, this shameful affair, is symptomatic of deeper challenges that plague “governance” today.

22 June 2024, 21:11 IST

One nation, many leaks: The wages of ‘maximum govt, minimum governance’

22 June 2024, 21:11 IST

What’s at stake this election? Not your mangalsutra, but India’s future direction

As the election cycle moves forward, we will have to see if our democracy is robust enough to rise to this challenge and wrest the debate on inequality and redistribution from fearmongering, bigotry and divisiveness.

27 April 2024, 20:44 IST

What’s at stake this election? Not your mangalsutra, but India’s future direction

27 April 2024, 20:44 IST

On evidence, policy-making, and critiquing it in a polarised polity

I chose to work in the arena of public policy driven largely by a personal commitment (the naivety of youth!) to the goal of social justice and a desire to be part of the process of radical social transformation that as a young adult in the late 1990s, I was witness to.

30 March 2024, 21:20 IST

On evidence, policy-making, and critiquing it in a polarised polity

30 March 2024, 21:20 IST

The Pareeksha Pe Charcha that we need to have urgently

The deep failures of our school education system are well-known. According to the New Education Policy (NEP), 2020, an estimated five crore students enrolled in primary schools had not attained foundational literacy and numeracy, i.e., the ability to read and comprehend basic text and the ability to carry out basic addition and subtraction.

02 March 2024, 21:25 IST

The Pareeksha Pe Charcha that we need to have urgently

02 March 2024, 21:25 IST

In defence of secularism, in a time of majoritarian triumphalism

I believe, secularism remains central to the constitutional “idea of India”. It is an ideal we must reclaim and restore for the sake of our society, for the sake of our democracy.

03 February 2024, 23:40 IST

In defence of secularism, in a time of majoritarian triumphalism

03 February 2024, 23:40 IST

We need a politics of North-South accommodation, not divide

India cannot afford a North-South divide. It needs a politics of North-South accommodation, partnership, and a celebration of diversity. The consequences of not doing so are too dangerous to contemplate.

09 December 2023, 19:29 IST

We need a politics of North-South accommodation, not divide

09 December 2023, 19:29 IST

In the GARP of clearing the air, polluted policy serves elites, political ends

The government is as busy as policy wonks. Last minute scramble. Incomprehensible (for the Aam Aadmi) GRAP measures in place. Smog guns, smog machines, sprinklers, bans on all kinds of activity.

11 November 2023, 18:54 IST

In the GARP of clearing the air, polluted policy serves elites, political ends

11 November 2023, 18:54 IST