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Blog February 14, 2025

Trauma from India’s second wave may have lingering effects

A multi-pronged mental health strategy for coronavirus warriors is the need of the hour.

Paper February 14, 2025

Prevalence of COVID-19 In Rural Versus Urban Areas in a Low-Income Country: Findings from a State-Wide Study in Karnataka, India

By Dr. Manoj Mohanan, Anu Acharya, Dr. Anup Malani & Kaushik Krishnan

Overall seroprevalence in the state implies that by August at least 31.5 million residents had been infected by August, nearly an order of magnitude larger than confirmed cases.

Blog February 13, 2025

How much of India is actually urban?

Ajai Sreevatsan discusses in Mint on how satellite images suggest that India’s urban population is more than twice of what is recorded in the Census.

Blog February 13, 2025

When economists look to the sky

Sumit Mishra writes in Mint on using data from satellite images to estimate the level of economic activity in regions.

Blog February 13, 2025

Big Data enters Indian policy

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Economists have now begun to use machine learning—or the use of computer algorithms that learn from data—to extract information from satellite images.

Blog February 13, 2025

How one Indian city cracked the problem of urban spread

Ahmedabad does things differently. Two municipal authorities—one for the central city, the other covering a much larger area around Ahmedabad—identify large blocks of land to develop.

Blog February 13, 2025

Tapping Indian cities’ unrealised growth potential

As India aims to become a $5 trillion economy, it must be cognizant of where that growth will come from.

Op-ed February 13, 2025

Opinion | The Rental Housing Approach for India

By Rohan Shridhar, Meenaz Munshi & Pritika Hingorani

In this article for Mint, Pritika Hingorani, Meenaz Munshi and Rohan Sridhar explain why rental housing must form a critical piece of the push to deliver affordable housing for all.

Op-ed February 13, 2025

Opinion | Chasing definitions in India

By Komal Hiranandani & Vaidehi Tandel

Since perfect definitions remain elusive, we can at least reduce their relevance.

Op-ed February 13, 2025

Opinion | Will Rera embolden powerful builders?

By Rohan Shridhar & Kshitij Batra

The costs of penalties, refunds and interest payments thus borne through hamstrung state capacity by developers will then ultimately be paid by consumers in the form of higher prices, without fundamentally increasing housing supply

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