In recent years, international indices and rankings such as the Democracy Index and the V-Dem Index have downgraded India’s democracy. Although there are significant differences in the degrees of downgrading, most major indices suggest that Indian democracy is backsliding.

Meanwhile, India is witnessing an increase in voter turnout, and people continue to participate actively and vociferously in politics. What is the reason for this disconnect between scholarly understandings of Indian democracy and ground realities?

To help us make sense of this dichotomy, Rahul Verma joins Suyash Rai to discuss his recent essay titled “The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy.” In the essay, Dr. Verma argues that the claims of democratic backsliding in India are somewhat exaggerated.

Episode Contributors

Rahul Verma is a fellow at the Center for Policy Research and a visiting assistant professor at Ashoka University. His research interests include voting behavior, party politics, political violence, and the media. Dr. Verma has published papers in Asian Survey, Economic & Political Weekly, and Studies in Indian Politics. His book, co-authored with Professor Pradeep Chhibber, Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India, develops a new approach to defining the contours of what constitutes an ideology in multiethnic countries such as India. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Suyash Rai is a deputy director and fellow at Carnegie India. His research focuses on the political economy of economic reforms and the performance of public institutions in India. His current research looks at the financial sector, the fiscal system, and the infrastructure sector.

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Additional Readings

The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy by Rahul Verma

“Symposium: Is India Still a Democracy?” Journal of Democracy, July 2023

The Possibilities of Indian Electoral Politics by Suyash Rai

Understanding the Debate on Democratic Backsliding Through Two Papers by Suyash Rai

Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India by Pradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma

The Rise of the Second Dominant Party System in India: BJP’s New Social Coalition in 2019 by Pradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma

Dalits in the New Millennium, edited by Sudha Pai, D. Shyam Babu, and Rahul Verma

How India’s Ruling Party Erodes Democracy by Ashutosh Varshney

The Expanding Role of Majoritarianism in India by Suhas Palshikar

Understanding the Nature of Party Competition and Politics of Majoritarianism by Suhas Palshikar

For India, ‘Middle’ Democracy Works by Subrata K. Mitra

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Key Moments

(00:00); Intro

(4:24); Chapter 1: Why Rahul Wrote the Essay

(9:53); Chapter 2: Paradoxes in Indian Polity 

(12:14); Chapter 3: Biases in Ranking Measures

(18:53); Chapter 4: Comparing the Present with the Past

(21:22); Chapter 5: Conflating Other Phenomena for Backsliding

(29:20); Chapter 6: Party Dominance and Partisanship

(35:03); Chapter 7: Unpacking Mass Polarization

(41:00); Chapter 8: The Frequency of Protests in Past Years

(49:22); Chapter 9: The Pew Survey on Religion in India

(50:53); Chapter 10: Scholarly Discourse vs. Public Opinion

(55:38); Chapter 11: The Current State of Indian Democracy

(1:04:47); Chapter 12: Remaining Hopeful About Indian Democracy

(1:08:18); Chapter 13: Closing Remarks by Suyash

(1:11:52); Outro

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The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act was introduced in 2016 to protect consumers who had invested in residential real estate projects from malpractices by real estate developers. After the law was passed, most states established real estate regulatory authorities to register and oversee the conduct of real estate developers. 

What changes did this act try to bring in, and how has this regulatory change benefited consumers? Is the increased information about property litigation that the Maharashtra RERA provides affecting housing prices? Does RERA reduce information asymmetry in the housing market?

In this episode of Interpreting India, Vaidehi Tandel and Sahil Gandhi join Anirudh Burman to give us insights into these issues and more. They discuss their recent working paper, co-authored with Anupam Nanda and Nandini Agnihotri. Their study analyses how housing prices change in response to mandatory disclosures under the RERA. The paper is titled, “Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets in India.”

Episode Contributors

Vaidehi Tandel is an economist working in the areas of urban economics, political economy, and public finance, with a focus on India. Currently, Dr. Tandel is a lecturer in real estate and urban economics at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research has been featured in The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Straits Times, Livemint, and others. Her papers have been published in the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, Environment and Urbanization, Cities, and BMJ Open, among others. Her current work looks at the politician-builder nexus in Mumbai, agglomeration economies in India, and climate change and adaptation across cities in developing countries.

Sahil Gandhi is an urban and real estate economist. Dr. Gandhi is a lecturer at The University of Manchester’s School of Environment, Education and Development. His research is in the fields of urban economics, real estate, and land economics. His recent papers are on vacant housing in India, migration and tenure choice, housing supply in Mumbai, and so on. His research has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, Environment and Urbanization, and Cities, among others. He has also led a report on affordable housing in India. Dr. Gandhi has bylines in international and Indian media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, and Livemint, among others. His research has also been cited in The Financial Times, The BBC, The Straits Times, Livemint, and more.

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Key Moments

(0:00); Introduction

(2:39); Chapter 1: The Context Behind RERA

(9:56); Chapter 2: Key Regulatory Changes

(15:21); Chapter 3: The Case of Maharashtra’s RERA

(17:27); Chapter 4: Mumbai’s High Proportion of Litigated Projects

(23:04); Chapter 5: The Aim and Findings of the Study

(27:35); Chapter 6: Variations Across Housing Submarkets 

(32:35); Chapter 7: Luxury Housing and Mandatory Disclosures

(35:02); Chapter 8: Non-Luxury Housing and Litigation Costs

(36:10); Chapter 9: RERA’s Impact on Low- and Middle-Income Consumers

(40:36); Chapter 10: Types of Litigation Faced by Projects

(43:44); Chapter 11: Future Research in Urban Economics

(48:22); Outro

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Additional Readings

Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets in India by Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda, and Nandini Agnihotri

Too Slow for the Urban March: Litigations and the Real Estate Market in Mumbai, India by Sahil Gandhi, Vaidehi Tandel, Alexander Tabarrok, and Shamika Ravi

View: Time to Make RERA Roar by Nandini Agnihotri and Sahil Gandhi

India Has to Attack Causes of Land Litigation. Modi’s Ease of Doing Business Depends on It by Anirudh Burman 

Making Land Titles in India Marketable: Using Title Insurance as a Viable Alternative to Conclusive Titling by Anirudh Burman

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The iCET was launched on the sidelines of the Quad Summit in Tokyo in May 2022. Both U.S. President Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the launch of this initiative, which was to be spearheaded by the National Security Councils of the two countries to expand partnership in critical and emerging technologies. Is the iCET more than just a deal? What is the case for comparisons between the iCET and the landmark India-U.S. Civilian Nuclear Deal? What makes the iCET different from earlier initiatives between India and the United States? Does Prime Minister Modi's upcoming state visit to the United States put the iCET under pressure to "deliver" something? What is the importance of export control measures in India-U.S. tech ties?

In this episode of Interpreting India, Arun K. Singh joins Konark Bhandari to discuss these questions and more.

Episode Contributors

Arun K. Singh is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India. Mr. Singh has extensive experience across the globe, including as India’s ambassador to the United States, Israel, and France. Throughout his distinguished career in the Indian Foreign Service spanning thirty-seven years, he has served during pivotal periods in key global capitals and was instrumental in shaping India’s policies, notably the continued progress in the U.S.-India relationship, India’s closer ties to Israel, and the formulation and implementation of India’s policies related to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, including in the period following 9/11.

Konark Bhandari is an associate fellow with Carnegie India. Konark is a lawyer who has researched on certain areas in the digital economy, focusing primarily on approaches to antitrust regulation of companies in the digital realm.

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Key Moments:

(0:00); Chapter 1: Introduction

(2:00); Chapter 2: iCET vs. India-U.S. Civilian Nuclear Deal

(10:10); Chapter 3: Private Sector Involvement in the iCET

(14:26); Chapter 4: An AUKUS-like Carve-Out for India?

(17:48); Chapter 5: The Pressure to "Deliver" Under the iCET

(21:25); Chapter 6: Likely Deals and Expectations During PM Modi's Visit

(24:15); Chapter 7: Indian Tech Talent and U.S. Immigration Reforms

(26:47); Chapter 8: Arriving at a Consensus Under the iCET

(29:11); Chapter 9: The Key Factors Making the iCET a Great Bet

(32:17); Outro

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Additional Reading

India and the United States’ Good Bet: One Year of the U.S.-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) by Konark Bhandari,  Arun K. Singh,  and Rudra Chaudhuri

To Compete With China on Tech, America Needs to Fix Its Immigration System by Eric Schmidt

America’s Bad Bet on India by Ashley J. Tellis

Forging a High-Technology Partnership Between the United States and India in the Age of Export Controls by Konark Bhandari

What is the United States-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET)? by Rudra Chaudhuri

The U.S.-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET): The Way Forward by Rudra Chaudhuri, Konark Bhandari, and Ashima Singh

How Washington and New Delhi Can Further Tech Ties by Rudra Chaudhuri, Priyadarshini D., Konark Bhandari, Arjun Kang Joseph, and Shatakratu Sahu

India-U.S. Emerging Technologies Working Group

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The 17th Lok Sabha has seventy-eight women MPs, the highest since independence. Has the increase in women’s participation been meaningful? What narratives of equality and citizenship have framed the issue of electoral representation? Do women MPs carry the burden of shifting welfare policy in a gender-sensitive direction? 

In this episode of Interpreting India, Shirin Rai joins Shibani Mehta to discuss these questions on gender parity and disparity in the Indian Parliament.

Episode Contributors

Shirin Rai is an interdisciplinary scholar of international relations, area studies, political economy, history, and comparative politics. She has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development, and gender and political institutions. Her work within feminist political economy examines gendered regimes of work and survival under globalization, which include the privatization of natural resources and the changing nature of work. 

Professor Rai is a distinguished research professor of politics and international relations at SOAS, University of London. She is a fellow of the British Academy. In 2022, she was awarded the Distinguished Contribution Prize by the British International Studies Association for her contribution to the promotion of excellence in the discipline of international studies over a substantial period of time. 

Shibani Mehta is a senior research analyst with the Security Studies Program at Carnegie India. Her research focuses on the India-China boundary dispute with the purpose of analyzing India’s foreign and security policy decisionmaking.

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Key Moments:

(0:00); Introduction

(2:11); Reflection on the newly built parliament building and its implications for society

(7:32); Analysis of the evolution of the Indian Parliament

(14:39); Examination of women's representation in Parliament throughout the years

(23:33); Discussing boardroom politics and advocating for women's participation in parliament

(31:26); Exploring whether women bear the burden of welfare and equality in this debate

(43:55); Comparison of women's reservation in parliament at different levels of governance

(50:27); Outro

Additional Reading

70 Years of Parliament by PRS Legislative Research

Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament by Shirin M. Rai and Carole Spary

The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance, edited by Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic, and Michael Saward

Explained | On Reservation for Women in Politics by Radhika Santhanam

Indian Women Are Voting More Than Ever. Will They Change Indian Society? by Milan Vaishnav

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Climate finance and technology is one of India’s priorities as part of its ongoing G20 presidency. Financing the climate transition of developing countries and the Global South is a complex but critical issue, as is the development, transfer, and sharing of critical climate technologies. What should India’s climate finance and technology strategy be? What role will the various pools of capital—private, public, philanthropic, impact, and multilateral development banks—play in mobilizing the necessary climate financial support for this transition? Will the new World Bank president, Ajay Banga, succeed in leveraging private capital for climate and ultimately make the Bank fit for purpose for the coming decades? Which areas of climate technology should India prioritize? Will India’s EV, solar, green hydrogen, and biofuels push suffice to position it as a climate leader? What lessons can India learn from the journeys, strategies, and priorities of other countries?

In this episode of Interpreting India, Varad Pande joins Anirudh Suri to discuss these key issues around India's climate finance and technology strategy.

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Episode Contributors

Varad Pande is a partner at BCG. Formerly, he was a partner with Omidyar Network India.

Anirudh Suri is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie India. His interests lie at the intersection of technology and geopolitics, climate, and strategic affairs.

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Additional Reading

A Comprehensive Framework for India’s Climate Finance Strategy by Anirudh Suri

The Case for a Comprehensive Indian Climate Bill by Anirudh Suri

Why Banga  Being a Corporate Czar is Good for World Bank: Activists Are Wrong Because ex-Mastercard Boss Can Mobilise Climate Finance by Tapping Private Sector Capital by Anirudh Suri

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(02:03); Varad's diving experience in the Andaman Islands and India's ocean ecosystem

(05:45); The Indian Ocean Initiative at Carnegie India

(06:27); Anirudh speaks on his observations on climate change

(07:45); Going from net zero to nature positive

(10:11); Change in climate finance trends

(12:17); Varad explains why climate finance is such a tricky problem to solve

(18:31); Making India more lucrative to global climate finance capital  

(28:34); Varad on the role of private and public finance in climate change

(30:45); Leveraging the newly elected council of the World Bank for climate finance needs

(36:55); India's climate tech strategy—EVs and green hydrogen  

(45:40); Anirudh on the consumption aspect of climate technology strategies

(47:13); What can India learn from the climate transition journeys of other countries?

(54:34); Outro

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India’s development has not been uniform and has leapfrogged from agriculture to services, skipping over a manufacturing phase. However, the agriculture and services sectors typically do not create enough productive jobs for those at the bottom of the education and skills ladder. Thus, there is a need for labor-intensive manufacturing to absorb those with low levels of education and skills, but only around 11–12 percent of the total employment is in manufacturing, and this share has been essentially flat for two decades. There is also too much labor employed in the low-productivity unorganized sector, and there are too few jobs in the high-productivity formal sector. As recently as 2015–16, the unorganized sector continued to employ over 70 percent of total manufacturing employment. Inclusive growth would require us to find ways to enable formal manufacturing to prosper.

In this episode of Interpreting India, Radhicka Kapoor joins Sayoudh Roy to discuss the state of labor-intensive manufacturing in India.

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Episode Contributors

Radhicka Kapoor is a visiting professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, in addition to having previously worked at the Planning Commission and at the International Labour Organization, Geneva. Her research interests include poverty and inequality, labor economics and industrial performance, and she has published extensively on labor-intensive manufacturing in India. Most recently, she has edited A New Reform Paradigm, a collection of essays written in honor of Isher Judge Ahluwalia.

Sayoudh Roy is a senior research analyst with the Political Economy Program at Carnegie India.  His work focuses on the macroeconomic implications of frictions in labor and financial markets and how interactions between them can affect macroeconomic aggregates.

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Additional Reading

A New Reform Paradigm: Festschrift in Honour of Isher Judge Ahluwalia, edited by Radhicka Kapoor

Creating jobs in India’s organised manufacturing sector by Radhicka Kapoor

Explaining the contractualisation of India’s workforce by Radhicka Kapoor and P. P. Krishnapriya

Stylized Facts on the Evolution of the Enterprise Size: Distribution in India's Manufacturing Sector by Radhicka Kapoor

Employment in India by Ajit Kumar Ghose

India Employment Report by Ajit Kumar Ghose

Structural Change and Employment in India by Nomaan Majid

Small-Scale Industry Policy in India: A Critical Evaluation by Rakesh Mohan

Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India: Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond, edited by Rayaprolu Nagaraj

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Recently, there have been certain key developments in India's space sector. There are questions that need to be probed for a better understanding of the country's space sector. What does it take to set up a successful space company? What should be made of the space sector reforms unveiled three years ago? How does the recent iCET framework play out when it comes to space cooperation between India and the United States?

In this episode of Interpreting India, Susmita Mohanty joins Konark Bhandari to discuss recent developments in India's space sector. 

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Susmita Mohanty is a spaceship designer and serial space entrepreneur. Susmita is the only space entrepreneur in the world to have co-founded companies on 3 different continents: EARTH2ORBIT Bangalore (2009-2021), MOONFRONT, San Francisco (2001-2007) and LIQUIFER Systems Group, Vienna (2004-ongoing). Her latest endeavor launched in October 2021 is Spaceport SARABHAI - India’s first dedicated space think tank that hopes to re-center the global space narrative, give India an international voice, grow the body of knowledge that informs critical areas of space law and policy, and help transform India into a developed space economy by 2030.

Konark Bhandari is an associate fellow with Carnegie India. Konark is a lawyer who has researched on certain areas in the digital economy, focusing primarily on approaches to antitrust regulation of companies in the digital realm.

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Are we there yet? The Artemis Accords, India, and the Way Forward by Konark Bhandari

What Does the United States' MTCR Policy Reform Mean for India's Space Sector? by Konark Bhandari

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The relationship between India and Germany doesn’t receive as much attention as it deserves. In recent years, however, the bilateral partnership has received a big impetus, both economically and geopolitically. India and Germany have had a strategic partnership since 2001, but have recently also embarked on a Green Strategic Partnership for green and sustainable development. What is that about? Where does this relationship stand currently? What are the challenges in taking this relationship to the next level? What are the economic, military and geopolitical drivers of this relationship? And what can India learn from how Germany has become an economic and industrial superpower? What can Germany learn from India’s own dynamic startup ecosystem? And finally, how can the two countries cooperate on major global challenges such as climate?

In this episode of Interpreting India, Philipp Ackermann joins Anirudh Suri to discuss India and Germany's strategic partnership and the economic, military, and geopolitical drivers of this relationship. 

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Episode Contributors

Philipp Ackermann is the current ambassador of Germany to India. He has studied art history and economics in Bonn, Heidelberg and Utrecht, and received his doctorate in art history in 1993, the same year that he joined the German Foreign Service. Before becoming Ambassador to India, he was Director General for Africa, Latin America, Near and Middle East at the Federal Foreign Office for five years.

Anirudh Suri is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie India. His interests lie at the intersection of technology and geopolitics, climate, and strategic affairs. 

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Germany woos India as an ally against Russia by Christoph Hasselbach

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A major puzzle for the Indian economy in the last one decade has been the weak performance in the textiles and apparel sectors. In real terms, the apparels sector has grown marginally and the textiles sector has witnessed a decline. India’s share in world trade in textiles and apparels has also declined considerably. Between the late-1990s and early 2010s, India’s share in the textiles trade has doubled, as the Indian economy revealed its comparative advantage in a variety of products in this category. But since then, India’s share in textiles trade has declined, even as many other countries have increased their share. The causes for this sudden reversal in a crucial sector is worth understanding. 

In this episode of Interpreting India, Abhishek Anand and Naveen Joseph Thomas join Suyash Rai to discuss how India can  reignite its manmade clothing sector. 

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Episode Contributors

Abhishek Anand is a consultant with PwC Middle East. Earlier, he has worked at the World Bank as a Robert S. McNamara Fellow and prior to that as a career civil servant with the Government of India. His research interest lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and economic development. 

Naveen Joseph Thomas completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He received his M.Sc. in Economics from the TERI School of Advanced Studies and his B.Sc.(H) in Physics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. His research interest lies in the areas of Household Economics, Growth Theory, Labour Economics and issues of the MSME sector. His current research focusses on the role of intra-household conflict in explaining low labour force participation of women in patriarchal societies, the scope of Mutual Credit Guarantee Schemes for the development of the MSME sector in India, and the analysis of education choice of parents under constrained supply of public-funded education in rural India using the ASER dataset.

Suyash Rai is a deputy director and fellow at Carnegie India. His research focuses on the political economy of economic reforms, and the performance of public institutions in India. 

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Additional Reading

Reigniting the Manmade Clothing Sector in India by Abhishek Anand and Naveen Joseph Thomas 

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In accordance with the G20 presidency conversations, one of the key conversations that has been missing from the main discourse has been the relationship between Brazil and India. Brazil will be taking over the G20 presidency from India. Therefore, it is imperative that these two countries think about some of the issues around climate finance, energy, technological innovation, global governance, and the SDGs. 

In this episode of Interpreting India, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago joins Anirudh Suri to discuss issues around climate finance, energy, technological innovation, global governance, and the SDGs. 

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Episode Contributors

André Aranha Corrêa do Lago is the former ambassador of Brazil to India. A recognised architecture critic and writer, has has been a member of the prestigious Pritzker Prize jury, and has served as the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion in the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Between 2011 and 2013, he was also Brazil's Chief Negotiator for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, including for the Rio+20 UN Conference, which launched the Sustainable Development Goals. Between 2005 to 2016, André served as a member of the Architecture and Design Committee of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and is currently a member of the International Council of MoMA.

Anirudh Suri is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie India. His interests lie at the intersection of technology and geopolitics, climate, and strategic affairs.

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Additional Reading

Brazil, India can steer global transportation towards biofuels by André Aranha Corrêa do Lago

Brazilian ambassador offers green growth solution to stubble burning in India by André Aranha Corrêa do Lago

The case for a comprehensive Indian climate bill by Anirudh Suri 

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