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March 28, 2022

Transformational Technologies and U.S. – India Science and Technology Cooperation

Event Details: KEY PARTICIPANTS: Speakers Jay Gullish – Executive Director of Digital Policy, U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) Nandini Kannan – Executive Director at Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) Opening Remarks: Dustin Bickel – Economic Officer, U.S. Consulate General, Chennai […]
March 28, 2022

യുക്രെയ്ൻ പ്രഹേളികയും ഇന്ത്യയുടെ തന്ത്രവും: സംവാദം നടത്തി…

സെന്റർ ഫോർ പബ്ലിക് പോളിസി റിസർച്ചിന്റെ (സിപിപിആർ) വെർച്വൽ സംവാദ പരമ്പരയായ ‘സിപിപിആർ ടൗൺഹാളി’ൽ ‘യുക്രെയ്ൻ പ്രഹേളികയും ഇന്ത്യയുടെ തന്ത്രവും’ എന്ന വിഷയത്തിൽ സംവാദം നടത്തി. വിവിധ രാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ ഇന്ത്യയുടെ നയതന്ത്ര പ്രതിനിധിയായിരുന്ന ടി.പി.ശ്രീനിവാസൻ, കാനഡയിലെ മക്ഗിൽ സർവകലാശാലയിലെ പ്രഫസറും ഇന്റർനാഷനൽ റിലേഷൻസ് വിദഗ്ധനുമായ ടി.വി.പോൾ എന്നിവരാണ് ചർച്ചയിൽ പങ്കെടുത്തത്. ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ പ്രതിരോധ […]
March 26, 2022

Prohibition | Bihar’s alcohol ban is not working. It’s time a better policy was in place

Consumption of liquor, even in small quantities, may have dire health consequences but prohibition has never been an effective strategy to reduce consumption. Historically, prohibition has never worked, and was often found to have created negative externalities which in turn […]
March 25, 2022

Video | Vikasarth 2022 | Session 1 | Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala

Vikasarth 2022 | Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala | Session 1: Kerala’s Response to the Economic Reforms with Pulapre Balakrishnan and Bornali Bhandari, moderated by Vinod Thomas The Vikasarth Conversations bring together a small […]
March 25, 2022

CPPR TOWNHALL on The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy

CPPR TOWNHALL on “The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy” Date and Time: 18 March 2022 at 6:30 PM IST. Speakers: Amb TP Sreenivasan, Advisor, CPPR and former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Prof T V […]
March 24, 2022

Kerala Budget 2022: State Big on Being a Provider than a Facilitator

Kerala has consistently topped the charts with a near hundred percent literacy rate among all Indian States. Even with this favourable statistic, the standards of teaching, quality of education, absence of academy-industry-linkages, etc. have been concerns to address in the […]
March 24, 2022

Bigger Concerns of Big Government

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered many economies towards ‘Big Government’, triggering a populist surge with large expenditure and borrowing, coupled with unprecedented power to meet contingencies. With Kerala, this has been a decadal trend regardless of the political parties coming […]
March 22, 2022

What should prevail instead of K-Rail?

The debate on the utility and feasibility of K-Rail continues in Kerala. The arguments range from the environmental to the geographical divide for those who do not favour the proposed project, whereas the supporters of the project pitch for the […]
March 21, 2022

CPPR TOWNHALL SERIES Ep-9 on The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy

Event Details Date and Time: March 18, 2022; 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM IST Topic: The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy Platform: Zoom Speakers: Amb T P Sreenivasan, Advisor, CPPR and former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the […]
March 21, 2022

India Energy Samvad | Dialogue No 2 : Energy Transition and Reforms for Sustainability

Event Details: Date and Time: March 16, 2022; 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm IST Topic: Energy Transition and Reforms for Sustainability Platform: Zoom Speaker : Anish De, Global sector Lead – KPMG National leader, Energy Natural Resources and Chemicals. Moderator:  […]
March 10, 2022

Event Report | Vikasarth 2022 | Session 1 | Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: the Growth and Development of Kerala

Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: the Growth and Development of Kerala Event Details Date and Time: March 10, 2022; 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM IST Topic: The Vikasarth Conversations Platform: Zoom Speakers: Pulapre Balakrishnan: Economics Professor, Ashoka University Bornali […]
March 9, 2022

The Goan brand of precarity – a closer look at unstable constituencies

By: Devahuti Sarkar Goan Legislative Assembly elections have been termed as the “politics of shifting sand” because of its history of numerous defections, changing alliances, and last-minute uncertainties among voters. Despite being a small state with merely 40 constituencies, it […]
March 9, 2022

Punjab Assembly elections- a moment of churning or missed opportunity?

By: Devahuti Sarkar Punjab, like many other states in India, is undergoing a moment of churning. There has been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction among the people of Punjab, some key defections, infighting within the Congress, shifting caste representation – in […]
March 9, 2022

Can Devbhoomi witness the emergence of an alternative political force?

The Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, known as “Devbhoomi”, was carved out of the hilly districts of the state of Uttar Pradesh in the year 2000. The hilly state, comprising of the two major regions of Garhwal and Kumaon, has voted […]
March 1, 2022

The Vikasarth Conversations 2022

“The Vikasarth Conversations” was jointly envisioned by the Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), India and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), New York as a platform that brings together a small and curated group of persons involved in legal, economic, and public policy […]