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When Walking, Seeing and Hearing are Taxed: The Case Against GST on Disability Aids
- Assistive Technology, Disability, GST
Taxing assistive devices for mobility, sight, and hearing is a structural inequity: a society where one is penalized for existing with a disability.
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Young People Are Turning to AI for Emotional Support – and Why That Should Make Us Pause
- AI, Children
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Green Skills, Grey Areas: Is India’s Transition Just?
- Green Skills
India’s green transition is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But who benefits from it is a matter of policy design. Without a deliberate gender lens, we risk building a new economy on the same old fault lines of inequality.
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Revisit Digital Search Powers Under the I-T Bill 2025
- Income Tax, Search & Seizure, Tech
The proposal to access an individual’s ‘virtual digital space’ raises significant concerns about privacy, overreach, and surveillance.
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Disinformation in the Digital Age Cannot be Fought by Taking Down Content
- Content Moderation, Platform Regulation
Blunt instruments like safe harbour dilution are unlikely to be effective against systemic challenges such as disinformation.
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DPDP Act Leaves Persons with Disabilities Vulnerable
- Data Protection, Disability, Privacy
The new data protection rules risk turning back the clock for Persons with Disabilities — equating disability with incapacity and eroding hard-won autonomy.
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Centering Care in India’s Economic Policy
- Care Work, Gender
Big numbers, small change: India’s Budget talks gender, but forgets to care — literally. Care work remains invisible, underfunded, and overwhelmingly shouldered by women.
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AI Blindspots in India’s Privacy Law
- Privacy, Tech Policy
India needs a technology-neutral privacy law with clear, reasonable standards to regulate AI responsibly while not locking it in a rigid, outdated framework. Doing so requires a serious reconsideration of the DPDPA’s very philosophy and design.
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Social Media Bans for Teens Will Not Succeed: India Needs Finer Policy Interventions
- Children, Privacy, Social Media, Tech
Australia’s Parliament has passed a bill banning children under 16 from social media, but India needs a middle path with tailored, nuanced solutions to tackle its unique challenges.
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What India’s AI Safety Institute Could Do
- AI Safety & Governance, Tech
India’s proposed AI Safety Institute can position the country as a global leader in evidence-based, human-centric AI governance.
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Tech’s Comfort Trap May Be Making Our Cities Unliveable
- Climate Change, Urban Planning
As urban heatwaves worsen, convenience-driven living insulates the privileged, leaving marginalized communities to face the consequences of poor planning and climate inaction.
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Analysing the Gender Budget of 2024-25 | Explained
- BUDGET, Gender, Labour Force
Transparent reporting and regular gender audits is the way forward to ensure effective and targeted spending for women’s development.
