June 16, 2021
Technology can aid state capacity, not replace it
Solving structural governance issues is key to unleashing the potential of technology in effective delivery of services.Â
June 10, 2021
Decentralisation and social mobilisation during the second wave of COVID-19
States and districts that have harnessed decentralised governance and community mobilisation have been more successful in controlling the second wave of the pandemic.
April 25, 2021
Breathless in India: The price of inaction
India finds itself caught in the wake of exceptionalism and premature triumphalism.
March 26, 2021
The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kerala - A State Capacity Perspective
This paper discusses Kerala’s response to the COVID-19, particularly in the first wave of the pandemic. It addresses why the state is particularly economically and demographically vulnerable to a public health crisis. Through a scan of government g...
March 15, 2021
India’s State institutions are failing citizens because they were built to control, not govern
Kadambari Shah and Vibhav Mariwala discuss how state institutions are failing citizens because they were built to control, not govern.
January 28, 2021
Police Training and Motivation Perception Study
This project aims to highlight the recruits’ perceptions of the current state of police training practices at the Madhya Pradesh Police Academy in Bhopal and suggest improvements.
August 17, 2020
NEP 2020: Piety demands educated outcome plan
In this opinion editorial, Shankkar Aiyer discusses the cues that we can take from historical champions of education policy in India including M C Chagla and Daulat Singh Kothari....
July 30, 2020
Grants from Centre and States' Fiscal Marksmanship
We undertake a study of 28 states to establish the issues with their revenue budgets’ fiscal marksmanship.
July 15, 2020
Don’t blame dense cities. They have been resilient
Vaidehi Tandel and Reuben Abraham explain that it is not density, but socioeconomic factors, state capacity, and lack of experience which explain case load...
June 11, 2020
Kerala COVID-19 Response: 100 days of the virus in 10 charts
Through a scan of the Kerala daily bulletins, guidelines, advisories, CoronaSafe network, news media and various departmental websites and social media accounts, we comprehensively document and visualise, the policy measures undertaken by the stateÂ...