India’s Mental-Health Treatment Gap
A UPSC Mains GS2 editorial on India's mental-health treatment gap — the 84.5% who get no care, a workforce a quarter of WHO norms,…
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Child Malnutrition: The Stunting India Won’t Shake Off
A UPSC Mains editorial on India's stubborn child stunting, wasting and anaemia, the POSHAN 2.0 scale-up, and the Global Hunger Index debate, balanced and…
India’s Missing Eldercare: Ageing Fast, With No Care System
A UPSC Mains GS1 editorial on India's ageing population and the missing eldercare system, using UNFPA 2023 and NITI Aayog's Senior Care Reforms data.
Women, Work and the Care Crisis: Why FLFPR Rose but Quality Didn’t
A UPSC Mains GS1+GS3 editorial on why India's female labour-force participation jumped to 41.7% while job quality stalled and the unpaid care burden barely…
The Caste Census: Evidence for Justice, or Entrenching Caste?
A UPSC Mains GS1+GS2 editorial on Census 2027's caste enumeration, the first since 1931, weighing evidence-based reservation against the risk of hardening caste.
Building India’s Chip Ecosystem: ISM 2.0 and the Honest Ladder
A UPSC Mains GS3 editorial on India's semiconductor build: why the honest ladder runs packaging to mature-node fab to design IP, and the constraints…
Genome India and Precision Medicine: The Promise and the Genetic-Data Ethics
A UPSC Mains editorial on the Genome India Project's Phase-1 data, the precision-medicine promise for a diverse population, and India's missing genetic-data safeguards.
India’s Deep-Tech Gap: Services Superpower, Deep-Tech Laggard?
A UPSC Mains GS3 editorial on India's R&D underspend, the ₹1 lakh crore RDI Scheme, ANRF, and why a services superpower still lags in…
The DPDP Act: Does India Finally Have Real Privacy?
A UPSC Mains editorial on the DPDP Act, 2023 and its 2025 Rules — real statutory privacy at last, weighed against state exemptions, Board…
Digital Public Infrastructure: India Stack as a Model, and Its Risks
A UPSC Mains editorial on India's Digital Public Infrastructure: why India Stack works at population scale, and the inclusion, privacy, and concentration risks the…
India’s Space Reform: The Indian Space Policy 2023 and the Private-Sector Pivot
A UPSC Mains editorial on the Indian Space Policy 2023, the four-actor model, FDI liberalisation, and whether the private-sector pivot is working.
BioE3 and Gene Editing: Biotech’s Promise vs Biosafety and Ethics
A UPSC Mains GS3 editorial on the BioE3 Policy, India's $195.3 bn bioeconomy, world-first gene-edited rice, and the biosafety, ethics, and trust questions that…