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This edition of the State of Finance in India report has India’s digital economy and its impact as its special ...

How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India

Implementing projects through Special Purpose Vehicles altered the balance between the levels of government with a centr...

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Why Are We Pushed Into Digital Money? Who Benefits? — THE MONEY TRAIL

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 Aadhar is finally revealing its true colours. From an iden...

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Rethinking the Right to Internet Access and What it Entails

Since the turn of the 21st century, the Indian state has increased its focus on using digital technologies to provide an...

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Booklet: Looking Back at One Year of Demonetisation

Compilation of essays written on the impact of demonetisation on the people and economy. Read Here ...

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December 23, 2025

C.P. Chandrashekhar & Jayati Ghosh

This edition of the State of Finance in India report has India’s digital economy and its impact as its special theme. The term ‘infrastructure’ conjures up images of large projects made of steel and concrete, to provide services varying from those offered by dams and power plants to those o...

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October 28, 2025

Marie Hélène Zérah

How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India

Implementing projects through Special Purpose Vehicles altered the balance between the levels of government with a centralising vision and control. A visitor looks at a model of a ‘smart city’ at the Smartcity Expo in New Delhi in May 2015. | Reuters When the Indian government announced ...

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March 11, 2026

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Why Are We Pushed Into Digital Money? Who Benefits? — THE MONEY TRAIL

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 Aadhar is finally revealing its true colours. From an identification system, it has metamorphosed into a data gold mine for fintech companies. This was always the idea, brags Nandan Nilekani and his band. And to make this worse, Crypto cu...

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June 10, 2021

Uttara Purandare

Rethinking the Right to Internet Access and What it Entails

Since the turn of the 21st century, the Indian state has increased its focus on using digital technologies to provide and organise government services. As information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become ubiquitous, e-governance has become more ambitious. Furthermore, the internet is ra...

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