by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Silence in the Spreadsheet, How India’s Budgets Continue to Short-Change the Environment In July 2014, a retired IAS officer wrote a blog post with a pointed title: “Budget 2014 — Short-changing the Environment.” Eleven years later, he returns to...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Robe and the Sword, Unpacking the Troubled Intersection of Buddhism, Nationalism, and Violence in Modern Asia In 1988, Philip C. Almond published a book with a deceptively simple title: The British Discovery of Buddhism. But as Rohan Manoj’s review of Sonia...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The AI Spring Festival, ByteDance’s Doubao 2.0, DeepSeek’s Shadow, and China’s Agentic Era As hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens travel to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year, a different kind of homecoming is underway in the digital realm....
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
India’s Climate Calculus, 5.6% of GDP, Differentiated Responsibility, and the Munich Message On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, in a panel discussion attended by global leaders and policymakers, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered a...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Last Plate, Why Economic Empowerment Still Stops at the Dining Table At 5 AM, Richa is awake. By 6, the house is clean, the floors are mopped, and tea is brewed for the family. By 8, lunch is slow-cooking on a wood fire—three or four dishes, the gas cylinder saved...
