Jayanth

This past week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, speaking at the annual RN Kao Memorial Lecture hosted by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), among other points, emphasised the importance of cross-country real-time intelligence sharing to intercept narcotics shipments. He cautioned that if nations did not act together now, the damage caused by drugs would be irreversible within a decade. This same week, India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), through a meticulously planned and successfully...

‘The Census is not only an administrative exercise but sovereign infrastructure that will shape policy, power and security for the next decade or so.’ The Nation is gearing up for the 16th Census, which will cover the twenty eight states, and eight union territories (UTs), the ambit of which includes roughly 7000 towns, 6,40,000 villages and 140 crore citizens. This Census of the world’s largest democracy and population, is beyond a mere sweeping tally of statistics. And as I will describe...