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Sneha Annavarapu Following scamsters yields rich insights into marginalisation, the scramble for upward mobility, and the image of the state in contemporary India. Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud That Preys on The World By Snigdha Poonam Penguin, 2025 Scams are constantly on our minds. We are haunted by them. They lurk as cautionary narratives that are circulated with breathless urgency in media discourses, through personal anecdotes, or that occasional longform a

Mihir Desai ‘Framing the Media’ offers a comprehensive overview of India’s media policies, laws, and court rulings since Independence, showing how governments and corporate forces have persistently undermined free speech. These curbs have intensified under the current regime. Framing the Media: Government Policies, Law, and Freedom of the Press in India By Pamela PhiliposeOrient BlackSwan, 2025 Freedom of speech and expression has always been viewed as the soul of democracy.

Anish De Events in the Persian Gulf have made faster electrification a national imperative, making it a timely call to action on energy security, sustainability, and affordability. Rising Ambition: India’s Energy Transition By Ajay Shankar TERI Press, 2024 Over the past quarter of a century, much has changed in the Indian electricity sector. The electrification of villages and households is itself the most fundamental change. According to the census of 2001, 44% of Indian hou

Ishan Anand In China and India, economic disparity in the 1950s-70s was low and declining, but began rising thereafter. A new book explores the different drivers of inequality in the two countries and how winners and losers were determined. Studies on economic inequalities have increased significantly over the past two decades, which is not very surprising given that inequality levels have risen dramatically. Most studies on inequality tend to analyse the trends and drivers o

By Sunny Chandiramani Born in Kolkata in 1937, Ganesh Pyne is remembered today as one of India’s most introspective and quietly potent contemporary painters. Sometimes referred to as the artist of darkness, he produced profoundly personal pictures examining death, memory, and the invisible domain always with a form of understated beauty that lingered with the spectator. Working mostly in tempera, an old and fragile painting method that let him build his pictures slowly, in so