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  • Sonalde Desai
    The Indian Express 03 October 2025

    For India, agricultural protection is similar to US anxiety on immigration. Once, I took a group of American students to learn more about the rural parts of India. We spent a couple of weeks in a village, where the students were constantly trailed by giggling children, several of them shouting out questions. So, we decided to hold an assembly at a school where the children could learn about America, with me translating. One of the questions was about the difference between villages in India and those in the US.

  • Sonalde Desai
    20 September 2025

    Sonalde Desai speaks to us about how the dipping fertility rate is going to impact India’s population, how variations in State fertility rates, primarily between the north and south are going to play out and the future of an ageing India

  • Debasis Barik
    Monthly Digest of Maharashtra Economic Development Council 06 May 2025

    India has made remarkable strides in expanding access to education for girls over the past few decades. Enrolment rates for girls in primary and secondary schools have risen significantly, and gender gaps in literacy have narrowed. Girls have surpassed boys even in gross enrolment in higher education. However, this educational success has not translated into a proportional increase in female labour force participation.

  • Hemant Kanakia Sonalde Desai
    The Indian Express 05 May 2025

    As India seeks to enhance its innovation ecosystem, it is worthwhile to pay attention to opportunities and lessons from the self-inflicted wounds on American science.

  • Sonalde Desai
    The Indian Express 22 March 2025

    Above all, trust in government is the key to successfully implementing difficult decisions during emergencies. This March marks five years since the world stopped. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid a pandemic. On March 24, the Government of India declared a nationwide lockdown, one of the most stringent globally. With five years and much water under the bridge, it is easy to forget the gasping breaths, millions of deaths, and shuttered businesses. That is, until the next disaster strikes. Can we learn from that painful experience to prepare for the next disaster, whether it is a black swan event like the pandemic, a tsunami, or a drought?

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