Milan Vaishnav

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Las universidades de la India no tienen libertad para sobresalir

Desde que se promulgó la Política Nacional de Educación 2020, la India ha buscado posicionarse como un centro de conocimiento del siglo XXI con instituciones de educación superior globalmente competitivas. Pero la abrupta renuncia de un joven economista de una de las universidades más prestigiosas del país, y la subsiguiente revuelta en el campus por su salida, arrojan dudas sobre la capacidad de la India para hacer realidad esta ambición.

En julio, Sabyasachi Das, profesor asistente de la Universidad de Ashoka, publicó un documento de trabajo en el que denunciaba irregularidades en las elecciones generales de 2019 en India. El estudio, que aún no ha sido revisado por pares, sugirió que el Partido Bharatiya Janata (BJP) del primer ministro Narendra Modi ganó una proporción desproporcionada de distritos electorales muy disputados debido a la manipulación electoral, es decir, a la eliminación selectiva de musulmanes de las listas de votantes.…  Seguir leyendo »

India is engaged in a pitched battle with a ferocious second wave of covid-19. For nine straight days, the country’s count of fresh virus cases has topped 300,000. And the death toll is steadily mounting, with more than 3,500 fatalities reported on Thursday alone. It is widely accepted that the headline numbers — as bad as they are — actually understate the severity of the surge: The collapse of the health-care system means that testing is increasingly scarce.

If the intensity of human suffering is steadily rising, so too is anger against India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The degree of fury — especially in urban centers and among the middle class — directed toward Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government is arguably the highest it has been in the seven years Modi has held office.…  Seguir leyendo »

The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is putting the finishing touches on its annual budget, to be released Feb. 1. In contrast to most other major economies, India’s yearly budget presentation is a grand affair, inspiring wall-to-wall television coverage, special sections in major newspapers and a cornucopia of wonky think tank discussions.

But this year, the heady buzz that typically surrounds the government’s flagship economic statement is missing in action for at least two reasons.

For starters, India is experiencing its most severe economic slowdown in three decades. At last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, India’s commerce minister assured global economic influencers that India’s economy was “poised to take off.”…  Seguir leyendo »