by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Profitable Nostalgia, SRCC’s Centenary, the Rise of Alumni Philanthropy, and India’s Unfinished Journey Toward Structured Giving “Nostalgia is not what it used to be.” The wry observation, variously attributed to actress Simone Signoret and...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Contempt That Endures, Caste, Privilege, and the Uproar Over UGC’s Equity Regulations The outrage triggered among certain socially dominant sections against the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
Pooling Risk, Building Cities, How Municipal Bonds and Pooled Financing Can Unlock India’s Urban Future Indian cities are growing at an unprecedented pace, adding millions more residents each decade. Yet they remain fiscally constrained, dependent on State and...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Broken iPad and the Deep Book, How 65,000 Years of Human Development Are Being Undone by 7.5 Hours of Daily Screen Time There is a 15-year-old YouTube video that has become a kind of parable for our time. It shows a toddler, accustomed to an iPad, encountering a...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Industry That Refuses to Die, Agentic AI, the End of Labour Arbitrage, and India’s Next Great Reinvention The technology-services industry has a peculiar distinction: every few years, we decide it is finished. We have been told that automation would hollow...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Crypto Conundrum, From Tax-Led Ambiguity to Multi-Stakeholder Regulation in India’s Evolving Digital Asset Landscape India’s relationship with cryptocurrencies has been, to put it mildly, a study in ambivalence. For years, the regulatory posture...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
India’s Urban Crossroads, Why City Economic Regions Are the Key to Unlocking Balanced and Productive Growth For decades, India’s urban policy discourse has been dominated by a single, powerful image: the megacity as a site of crisis. Mumbai’s...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Singular Life, Why Accomplished Women Are Choosing Solitude, Why Men Must Level Up, and the Quiet Revolution Reshaping India’s Social Landscape There are way too many eligible, accomplished, amazing single women around than men. The accompanying essay by...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Child Who Wasn’t Theirs, ‘Without Warning’, the Nature of Motherhood, and the Unbearable Question of Where Love Belongs What makes a mother? The woman who brings a child into the world, or the one who nurtures and cares for them, even if they are...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Venezuela Playbook Will Not Work in Iran, Why Trump’s Coercive Diplomacy Meets Its Match in the Islamic Republic Over the past week, the United States has positioned two aircraft carrier strike groups near Iran, and rumours abound that the US—either alone or...
