Governance and Political Studies
Indian Democracy and Governance

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) receives a large number of foreign delegations, student groups and individuals who do not have a great deal of familiarity with India but wish to know about the country, its history, geography, civilisat....

Securing Bharat’s Critical Mineral Supply Chains: The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023

A fresh push for securing supplies of critical minerals will be crucial to power its manufacturing and deep-tech ambitions. Maintaining momentum will be essential. Bharat is approaching an economic inflection point, where exponential increase in i....

Legal Reform in Criminal Justice System of India – a Much Awaited Overhaul for Time Bound Justice

January 26, the largest democracy of the world celebrates its 75th Republic Day. As in 2022, India celebrated its 75th year of Independence where it carved out a rightful place for itself in 1947 and since then India has emerged as a prominent entity....

Plantable Seed Crackers: A Sustainable way to Celebrate Diwali

The most pressing issues of modern times are environmental degradation and climate change. The climate change issues have been further aggravated by increasing pollution. Among the different forms of pollution, air pollution is known to have global ....

Ayushman Bharat: A Milestone in India’s Healthcare System

धर्मार्थ काम मोक्षाणां आरोग्यं मूलमुतमम्। रोगास्तस्यापहर्तारः श्रेयशो जीवितस्य च।। - (Char....

Livelihood Alternatives: Enhancing rural development by supporting small farmers

In Odisha, the rural landscape is dotted with examples of individual excellence in the agri- development space. However, when it comes to collective efforts at economic transformation, the success has not been very encouraging. Many of the collective....

Sustainability, Knowledge Platform and G-20 for Emerging Economies

The recent COP 28 in Abu Dhabi and prior to that the G20 Summit in New Delhi observed “at the midway point to 2030, the global progress on SDGs is off-track with only 12 percent of the targets on track”. Global Leaders are tying loose....

India’s Stock Market Outperforms among the Top 10 Leading Economies

The Indian stock market has experienced a remarkable surge in market capitalization, expanding from USD 1.1 trillion in December 2013 to USD 4 trillion in December 2023. This extraordinary growth signifies a fourfold increase within the last 10 years....

India’s Chess Prodigies: A Sister-Brother Grandmaster Duo

India's image as a country of prodigies is cemented as it continues to foster and recognise the extraordinary abilities of its young minds. Many prodigies from India have demonstrated outstanding abilities in various fields. A sister-brother duo from....

From Plastic to Petrol: Justman Synram’s Green Triumph

Justman Synrem, widely recognized as Petrol man, is an innovative entrepreneur hailing from Sohra, a small town in Meghalaya, India. Renowned for his visionary approach, he gained fame for introducing a ground breaking technology that transforms plas....

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