Indian Political Debate

From lock-in to first install: how India built a social operating system Abstract In Part 1, I argued that caste is not “eternal culture” so

India loves national stories: one GDP number, one growth rate, one “India is rising” headline. But electorally—and economically—that’s a convenient fiction. Because 17 states with

West Bengal’s elections increasingly look less like a straight contest of manifestos and more like a contest over what the election is about. Whoever decides

India’s rupee isn’t falling because the economy is “failing.” In fact, the headline growth story has been robust—GDP grew 8.2% year-on-year in the July–September 2025

Equal opportunity isn’t a “soft” moral add-on to growth; it’s the hard infrastructure of a stable society. When children’s life chances depend mainly on their

The replacement of MGNREGA with the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB—G RAM G) is more than rebranding. The core right-to-work idea