Early in his second term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on an ambitious vision for defense reforms.

In 2018, after the India-Nepal announcement of new connectivity through Inland Waterways, I visited Bihar and Nepal with a Manthan Adhyayan Kendra field team to understand how prioritized waterways on the rivers are developed, specifically National Waterways Kosi and Gandak, as well as the Ganga in Bihar.

In Uttarakhand, land is a political flashpoint. A controversial 2018 law introduced by state legislature now allows outsiders to buy land in the Himalayan state. In 2018, as these laws were coming into force, I asked Bhim, an elderly lower caste man, what he thought about it all.

As the Bay of Bengal experiences more frequent cyclones, villages devastated by the ingress of saline water are becoming attractive sights for private businessmen interested in expanding commercial shrimp aquafarming.