When Subhash Chandra Garg, the then Finance Secretary of India, quietly decided to resign from the Indian Administrative Service, it wasn’t because of a scandal or political fallout. It was because a file moved in the Ministry of Finance—not through honest dialogue, but through quiet coercion.

India, with a population exceeding 1.46 billion, is now the most populous country in the world. However, this should not be seen as a crisis, according to Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director of the Population Foundation of India. She emphasised that the country is at a crucial demographic crossroads that demands smart, inclusive, and rights-based policy […]