[HAPPENING TODAY] #KnowYourRegulator talk: Mr Preman Dinaraj, Chairperson, Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission also featuring Ashwini K Swain, arkajasingh and Abha Yadav Thursday, 7 July 2022, 2-3:30 PM IST on Zoom Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs Register:us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Sudha Bharadwaj outlines the significance of the tasks ahead of Smt. Draupadi Murmu as President of India, especially to ensure that mining and "development" policies recognise the voices, needs and rights of tribal communities. thequint.com/voices/opinion…

#KnowYourRegulator talk: Mr Sutirtha Bhattacharya, Chairperson, West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission also featuring Ashwini K Swain, arkajasingh, Praveen Kumar and Abha Yadav Friday, 29 July 2022, 4PM IST on Zoom Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Starting in the late 1990s, India established several regulatory agencies. A new paper by arkajasingh explores the design of five such agencies established post-liberalisation from an administrative perspective #Thread #NewResearch #Regulation cprindia.org/workingpapers/…

This is an important story on CPR by Vijaita Singh 👇🏾

There are lots of problems with personal laws, but these are false binaries. My personal law should be fair to me, in the context I inhabit, how does it matter if it’s different for my neighbour, as long as hers is fair to her too?

Delighted to announce my book "India's Communal Constitution: Law, Religion and the Making of a People". Published by CUP India Anwesha Qudsiya Ahmed Anandadeep Roy Please do pass on to all those interested and especially librarians amazon.in/Indias-Communa…

This tragedy, at the heart of it, is no different from sewer deaths, engineering norms thrown to the winds at the cost of migrant workers, adivasis and Dalits. No one is ever held accountable for the cost of jugaad engineering.

These men are the rat-hole miners, skilled workers who drilled through the debris pile manually and create a narrow passageway to the 41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand. The team of 24 rat miners and NDRF are the real heroes of this 17-Day rescue mission.

Thanks very much to Rohan Venkat and the folks at Centre for Policy Research for this conversation. I enjoyed having it, and enjoyed getting lovely messages from people who read it.

In the latest edition of CPR Perspectives, arkajasingh talks about her wide range of work at Centre for Policy Research with different initiatives, her advise to young researchers, recommendations and much more. Listen here: cprindia.org/podcast/

FRI 19 APR @ 3.45PM, Centre for Policy Research alumna Persis Taraporevala (@[email protected]), now at Birkbeck Law School, with marie helene zerah on impact of smart governance on multiscalar govt. in the #globalsouth Are #SmartCities a new curtailment of municipal democracy or an old trend? Join in person or on zoom.us/webinar/regist…

In case you happen to be in need of a tailor, and are in south delhi, I want to recommend the services of Noorjehan Tailors in Meherchand Market. They’re excellent and can make just about anything for ladies and kids.

Why do people think it’s netas and babus? They may be part of the roadwidening problem, but engineers and the entire technical community of urban development are much more to blame. There’s an east-west problem also in the imagination of trees.

Thank you for saying this. The EOL policy makes little environmental sense, penalises car owners and rewards car companies. There should be a right to repair, maintain and upgrade. And surely governments can spend a little more money to have credible fitness tests.