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Welcome Note: The Fragility of the Policy Process

There is a popular aphorism attributed to Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, which reads: ‘What men want is not knowledge, but certainty’.
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The Battle Over Aarey in Mumbai

This is the editorial from the Vol. XXV, No. 5, October 2019 (No. 141) Issue of the Protected Area Update, a newsletter produced by Kalpavriksh and Centre for Policy Studies.
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Higher Education Is No Wonderland, but Does the New Education Policy Know?

The National Education Policy ignores the ground realities of research quality in higher educational institutions but sets enormous goals for the country.
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Nudge Fudge: A Critique of Using Nudge Theory in Policymaking in India

Over the past few weeks, you may have stumbled upon the words ‘nudge’ and ‘behavioural economics’ more often than you had in the past few years. There is a serious attempt to mainstream nudge in policy design.
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Nudge Fudge: Why Behavioural Economics?

Last month, at the induction programme for around 120 MBA students at IIT Bombay, I was conducting a session on plagiarism. During the session, I announced: “Plagiarism is like a plague.”
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Four Things We Need To Urgently Fix In India’s Education System

The Draft New Education Policy 2018 (DNEP) is a grandiose document that covers a student’s entire life span from pre-schooling to the PhD degree in about 500 pages.
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Workshop on Environmental Policy, Scope and Challenges for Local Regulation (9-11 Sept)

Organised under the aegis of the Indo-German partnership Program in Higher Education, jointly supported by the University Grants Commission and German Academic Exchange Service (DDAD)
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Looking Beyond Privacy: The Importance of Economic Rights to Our Data

Digital data and the pervasive intelligence that it provides about people, and about artefactual and natural phenomenon, is the very basis of a digital economy.
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A Paradigm Shift in Policy Thinking for Women

Here’s the thing about cities. They’ve been built by men for men. As Sanjukta Basu has written, “women are allowed to venture out in public space, but not really own it.”
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Research: Study on Media Influences in India

We are glad to announce the release of the first of a three-part study on media influences in India authored by CPS's visiting fellow, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and project associate Simran Agarwal.
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