Independence Special 2013
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Freedom to Adopt: How Every Child Fills Our Lives
Adoption is merely normal, ordinary yet special, much like birth is ordinary yet special
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Ajay Shah: The State Should Enter the Picture Only When Markets Fail
A key pillar of a sound state is accountability. Alongside precise objectives and precise powers, we need layer upon layer of accountability mechanisms
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Manish Sabharwal: Why the God of Jobs Doesn't Smile on India
There is a dire need for policy and politics to combine to build a serious narrative around non-farm formal job creation
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Freedom from Religion: Why 'No Religion' Should be a Category
There’s a small but growing community of those who shun religion
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India can't be a Jugaad Economy Forever
India has to implement key reforms in at least three areas—energy, land and labour—to get its economy back on track. It also needs to expand the ambit of economic and political freedom
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Surjit Bhalla: Why Ending Doles Will Help The Poor
The government’s fixation on bad subsidies is supporting corruption, not the poor
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Bibek Debroy: Between the 'Illfare' State and the Deep Sea
Great damage was done by changing the Preamble in our Constitution to make India ‘socialist’. What we have as a result is not a welfare state, but an ‘illfare’ one
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Freedom from Ageism: Age no Bar is a Myth in India
If the image of youth has changed rapidly in the recent past, then why hasn’t the image of our seniors?
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Yogendra Yadav: India is a State-Nation, Not a Nation-State
India has created a new model to democratically deal with deep diversities. It accepts that political boundaries do not and need not coincide with cultural boundaries
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Freedom from Gender: Imagining Equality for Men and Women in India
Laws in India straitjacket men and women into strict gender roles
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Bimal Patel: We Have to Free Our Cities from the State's Clutches
The country’s creaking infrastructure has been unable to support its cities’ rapid growth. Local governments should be granted autonomy to increase productivity