Sonalde Desai

Whether we like it or not, coronavirus is knocking on the door-and we have two weeks to prepare

What kind of policy research institutions do we need to shape the intellectual foundation on which government policy should rest?

The data show that rural families simply cannot subsist on farm incomes alone

The three things India must do now to prepare for an ageing population

While, in the abstract, we recognise and celebrate near-universal school enrolment, out education policy is still geared around increasing enrolment

How to limit the expansion of group-targeting while ensuring that disadvantaged groups get the help they need

Twenty-first century India cannot rely on a rickety healthcare system that pays little attention to medical professionalism

There's no sanity in the response to the latest poverty statistics

Nation must address the social, political and economic needs of the rapidly growing rural population around urban centres