Cover Stories

Born In Crisis, Grown In Power

Sudeep Paul

G20 has expanded its agenda since 1999 and survived persistent challenges to its legitimacy

At Home In the World

India makes a statement of power from the global forum of G20 by offering its human-centric and pragmatic approach as the best hope for solving problems from debt burdens to climate change

A Note on the G20 Absentees

S Prasannarajan

Why G20-minus-two works better for the world

The Threat to the Gig Economy

Rameesh Kailasam

Duplication of social security benefits by states can end up harming a viable model

Where Has the Money Gone?

Haseeb Drabu

The inability to rationalise expenditure has created a crisis for states when revenues are otherwise buoyant

Welfare Without Populism

PR Ramesh | Siddharth Singh

The Modi government resists economic appeasement even as Opposition-ruled states revel in it

India is the fourth country to land on the moon. It is the first to land near the lunar south pole. The failure of Russia’s Luna-25 just a few days earlier also played a part in ensuring India won this leg of the space race

‘Our relations with agencies like NASA and ESA have become more equal’

Siddharth Singh

In conversation with Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Science and Technology

India’s Spacewalk

Rajeev Deshpande

The moonshot mirrors the country’s global profile

On the Moon

V Shoba

India joins the exclusive league of space superpowers with the soft-landing of its moon mission Chandrayaan-3 near the south pole of the lunar surface