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Too Informal to Adapt
India's tenure filter is locking its most climate-exposed urban households out of the adaptation schemes designed to protect them.

The Indian Netizens
Sep 86 min read


Off the Books, On the Ground: What India’s C&D Recycling Rate Leaves Out
The policy looks well-equipped on paper, yet the latest figures indicate the official C&D recycling rate at a mere 5 %.

The Indian Netizens
Sep 73 min read


Can Trump Push Pakistan Into China’s Arms? The Abraham Accords Dilemma
Donald Trump has once again placed the Abraham Accords at the centre of his foreign policy agenda. The accords which began in 2020 aimed to normalize relations between Israel and several Muslim-majority countries. For Trump, expanding these agreements is not simply another diplomatic initiative but it is one of the defining achievements of his foreign policy legacy.

The Indian Netizens
Sep 67 min read


Two Systems, No Bridge: CSR, Urban Climate Risk, and India's Missing Convergence Architecture
Cities in India don't lack the corporate climate capital but the governance architecture to access it to build climate resilience.

The Indian Netizens
Sep 58 min read


Remittances Without Rights: How India's Foreign Policy Abandoned Its Working -Class Gulf Diaspora
India received $125 billion in remittances in 2023, retaining its position as
the world's largest recipient of inward transfers, according to the World Bank's Migration and Development Brief. The figure anchors the national balance of payments, which keeps families afloat in the agrarian heartlands of states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Odisha, where few alternative income sources exist, and finances approximately 23.2 per cent of Kerala's Net State Domestic Pro

The Indian Netizens
Sep 37 min read


Borrowed Ground: India’s Cities Are Sinking Without Anyone Noticing
ach disaster is defined by its pace. Earthquakes come within seconds, floods in hours, drought in months. Subsidence takes years to show. It starts showing in millimetres and keeps exacerbating from thereon, and this entire process happens so slowly that when it manifests itself through cracks in walls and roads and flooded basements, the ground responsible for it is no longer there. This is already happening in places as far apart as Jakarta and Mexico City. And although slo

The Indian Netizens
Jul 178 min read


The Climate Gambit: India’s Climate Diplomacy and Withdrawal from COP33
The field of global climate diplomacy, formerly seen as a significant unified front against the shared existential peril, is now characterized by strategic recalibration and disintegration. The pressure is on developing countries to strike a balance between the prestige of global leadership and the harsh realities of infrastructural growth as the world keeps shifting the dynamics of alliances and the advent of digital and energy sovereignty.

The Indian Netizens
Jun 174 min read


The US-Iran War: How China is Winning the US-Iran War Without Firing a Shot
The smoke has cleared over the Persian Gulf and the roar of American missiles has become the soundtrack of 2026, but a curious silence prevails in Beijing. While the US finds itself entrenched in another high-stakes Middle Eastern conflict, the broader global landscape is shifting beneath its feet.

The Indian Netizens
Jun 125 min read


Development vs Displacement: The Story of Chita Andolan
While the rest of the world is dealing with petroleum prices and energy reserves, the Chhatarpur and Panna districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, are facing their own crisis. The tribal women villagers of the Chhatarpur region of Madhya Pradesh lay on funeral pyres to protest the Ken-Betwa Link Project in April 2026.

The Indian Netizens
Jun 94 min read


The 15-Minute City Sounds Perfect, That's Exactly the Problem.
The popular urban planning idea is spreading fast, but the gap between the vision and the reality reveals a deeper governance crisis.

The Indian Netizens
Jun 86 min read


The road towards a mother’s loss: Motherhood Penalty
The motherhood penalty is the loss a woman faces in the workplace after becoming a mother. In simpler words, the motherhood penalty is an utterly frustrating phenomenon for women facing economic disadvantages after becoming a mother.

The Indian Netizens
May 203 min read


Between Recognition and Resistance: Transgender Rights in India’s Legal Crossroads
This text attempts to trace the legal history and the implications of the latest Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, which, after obtaining the assent of the president, has become an act on 30th March, 2026. This act has replaced the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.

The Indian Netizens
May 174 min read


Hydro-power Diplomacy in India-Nepal Ties: A New Era of Regional Energy Connectivity
For decades, the bilateral relationship between India and Nepal regarding water resources and their utilisation was viewed primarily through the lens of dispute as a result of the older water-sharing treaties, which were often perceived as unfair by Nepal, with the prevailing sentiment that the agreements were asymmetrical and heavily favoured towards India. In recent times, this has evolved towards a relationship that views hydroelectricity as a regional commodity.

The Indian Netizens
May 155 min read


China’s Ultimate Weapon: The Trillion-Dollar Threat to the Global Economy
The global economy is currently inextricably tethered to seventeen elements buried in the earth’s crust.
These Rare Earth Elements (REEs) form the foundational bedrock of modern civilization by powering everything from commercial electric vehicles (EVs) and consumer electronics to advanced missile defence systems. For decades, the global market outsourced the environmentally hazardous and capital-intensive process of refining these minerals to the People’s Republic of Chi

The Indian Netizens
May 104 min read


Extreme Heat Is Now a Global Health Crisis. Here's What Indian Cities Are Not Doing About It.
Over four billion people globally are now urban residents, and the concrete infrastructure of their cities is making extreme heat deadlier with every passing summer. India by itself is home to over 513 million of them, nearly 13% of the world's urban population, and its cities are less than prepared for a climate phenomenon that is turning them virtually into ovens.

The Indian Netizens
May 54 min read


Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: How Europe's New Trade Rule is Reshaping the Global Steel Industry
Steel has always been a proxy for industrial power. The countries that make it cheaply tend to win. For a long time, the logic was blunt: pay your workers less, skip the environmental compliance, keep your energy bills low, and you could sell steel into Europe cheaper than any European mill ever could. That edge is now being taxed out of existence.

The Indian Netizens
May 44 min read


India’s Neutrality and Dual Diplomacy: The Only Deterrent for TheCurrent Geopolitical Scenario
By The Indian Netizens India should prefer neutrality over showcasing tilt towards a certain block, in the current war happening between Israel and U.S., and Iran. A confrontation which is termed as the Iran War, fostered in the uncertainties created due to the difference on the nuclear standpoint between the two countries, escalated in the region gradually reaching its epitome on February 28, 2026, where the United States and Israel coordinated an attack via surprise airstri

The Indian Netizens
May 24 min read


Defence Innovations in Developing Countries: Navigating Sovereignty, Technology, and Strategic Autonomy
The global arms industry for the majority of the twentieth century had been running on a rather lopsided basis. Advanced weapons systems were developed, manufactured, and shipped by developed countries. Developing nations, regardless of the scale of their security challenges, were left without control to purchase what they were offered, usually paying a staggering toll financially and in politically problematic circumstances.

The Indian Netizens
May 15 min read


India’s Trade Policy Shift: From Free Trade Agreements to Strategic Protectionism
Since gaining independence, India's trade policy has concentrated on non-reliance and protectionism, setting it apart from other nations. The 35 years following independence were characterized by extremely high tariffs, strict import controls, and a complicated licensing system designed to promote rising Indian diligence while securing multitudinous sectors.

The Indian Netizens
Feb 94 min read


Generation Z’s Asian Spring: How a Betrayed Generation Is Rewriting South Asia’s Politics
The 2020s have shown a stark rise in discontentment among the youth of South Asia; giving rise to a string of revolutions across the continent, which have overthrown the existing regimes and replaced them with student backed interim governments.

The Indian Netizens
Jan 254 min read
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