by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 18, 2026 | Courses
NCERT Must Heed the Lesson in the Court’s Rebuke, Institutional Accountability and the Making of Textbooks A Former Director Reflects on the Crisis of Credibility When a Textbook Mention of Judicial Corruption Triggered a Supreme Court Ban The Supreme Court of...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 18, 2026 | Courses
What Could Have Been Done to Avert a Cooking Gas Crisis — And Wasn’t, A Story of Missed Opportunities and Strategic Failure As millions of Indian households grapple with the latest spike in cooking gas prices and the anxiety of supply disruptions, it is worth...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 17, 2026 | Courses
China FDI, The Door Opens, But the Great Wall Stays – India’s Muddled Thinking on Economics and Security The Indian government has finally taken a step, however small, towards rationalizing its policy on foreign direct investment from China. Press Note 3, the...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 17, 2026 | Courses
Cricket, Politics, and Faith, When the Subcontinent’s Passion Meets the World’s Most Dangerous Conflict I have to confess that I am not at all a sports-mad person. Wimbledon, World Cup cricket matches, or the Super Bowl—nothing could ever drive me to spend...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 17, 2026 | Courses
From Ghooskhor to The Kerala Story, The Slippery Slope of Hurt Sentiments and Free Speech in Indian Cinema What’s in a name? Plenty, as Indian filmmakers are discovering to their cost. The producer of a film titled Ghooskhor Pandat recently agreed to withdraw...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 17, 2026 | Courses
How History Is Written, and Gets Distorted, A Conversation with India’s Past It is a profound and troubling paradox that Indians are, in many ways, obsessed with history and historical questions, and yet remain largely oblivious to how that history is actually...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 17, 2026 | Courses
A World Cup Win, and Why We’re Still Counting Seconds on a Kiss, India’s Uncomfortable Dance with Public Displays of Affection The night India lifted the T20 World Cup, the field dissolved into the usual delirium of fireworks and woofers pumping out...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 17, 2026 | Courses
When Scrubbing the Mirror Doesn’t Help, The Supreme Court, the NCERT Textbook, and the Anatomy of Censorship The stench of censorship hangs heavy over Delhi these days, enveloping two very different books. One, a memoir by a former Chief of Army Staff, has been...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 16, 2026 | Courses
Can Moral Storytelling Trump Legal Reason? The Iran War and the Dangerous Shift in How States Justify Conflict As the United States and Israel Attack Iran Without UN Authorization, the Language of “Just War” Threatens to Replace the Rule of Law Since the...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Mar 16, 2026 | Courses
War and Regime Change in Global Governance, The Iran Conflict and the Unravelling of the Rules-Based Order As the Mightiest Power Attacks Another Sovereign Nation Without Congressional or UN Approval, the Post-1945 Architecture Crumbles What does war escalation in the...
