Special COVID-19 Series | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)

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India in Transition (IiT), allows scholars from all over the world, the opportunity to exchange various analyses and innovative ideas about India's current status and growth.

IiT presents brief, analytical perspectives on the ongoing transformations in contemporary India based on cutting-edge research in the areas of economy, environment, foreign policy and security, human capital, science and technology, and society and culture. A Hindi, Bangla, and Tamil translation accompanies each published article.

In addition to appearing on CASI's website, IiT articles are published in India-based outlets Scroll.in, The Hindu: Business Line, and Amar Ujala. Past issues have appeared in the op-ed pages of the Indian newspapers Hindustan and Livemint. All viewpoints, positions, and conclusions expressed in IiT are solely those of the author(s) and not specifically those of CASI.

Preparing for India’s Third Wave: Lessons Learned from the Past and Steps for the Future

BY Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Shipra Grover, Anuja Jani, and Vasundhara Rangaswamy

September 27, 2021

The US-India Collaboration in the Fight Against COVID-19

BY Rupakjyoti Borah

September 13, 2021

Securitizing Health and Suppressing Democracy: COVID-19 Policy Measures and Political Implications

BY Vivek N. D.

August 30, 2021

Global Implications of India’s Second COVID-19 Surge

BY Priya Sampathkumar

August 16, 2021

Lessons from the Impact of the First Wave of COVID-19 in India

BY Rahul Lahoti

August 2, 2021

India’s Misinformation Crisis: What Role Do BJP WhatsApp Groups Really Play?

BY Simon Chauchard

July 19, 2021

India’s COVID-19 Data and the Public Interest

BY Gautam I. Menon

July 5, 2021

Movement, Labor, and Care During India’s COVID-19 Crisis

BY Harris Solomon

June 21, 2021

Human Rights and State Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adjudication as Accountability

BY T. Sundararaman

June 7, 2021

Center and States Need to Coordinate, Not Compete

BY Louise Tillin

May 24, 2021