10 Years of Digital India: Transformation of Bharat from digitally divided nation to world’s digital capital

Prof. Himani Sood | June 30, 2025 8:02 PM

New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Despite the launch of e-governance projects way back in 1990s, the deep ‘digital divide’ -- which existed in India till about a decade back -- not only created economic disparities between those who could afford technology and those who could not, but also affected the country’s overall growth due to lack of required digital infrastructure.

Plumbing the profound with perspicacious poetics (Book Review)

Vikas Datta | June 30, 2025 10:59 AM

New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) "Through smog and soot and horrid dust,/You will have to endure/To make a wage..." This verse can evoke a more eloquent exposition of our polluted urban agglomerations and the imperative to brave the degraded air as we move around for our daily sustenance than the most well-researched report.