Kapur takes over helm of UPenn's India centre

Professor Devesh Kapur, 47, has taken over as the new director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Advanced Study of India, succeeding CASI's founding director Professor Francine......

Why Are Indians Migrating Illegally To US?

Many unauthorised migrants originate from Punjab and Gujarat, states known for high migration aspirations rather than political instability. Photograph: Kind courtesy Simrin/Wikimedia commons As......

The elite's classrooms

The government is internationalising Indian higher education in quite the wrong way, says Devesh Kapur The Indian government recently announced a grant of Rs 25 crore to Oxford University for the......

'Overseas citizen shifted the basis of Indian nationalism'

Devesh Kapur has been the director of Centre for the Advanced Study of India, the only research institute in America devoted to India, since 2006. CASI at the University of Pennsylvania turned 20......

4 reforms that can solve India's land woes

 India needs to do away with income tax concessions that encourage purchase of housing, say Devesh Kapur and T V Somanathan and Arvind Subramanian. How can India reduce the severe......

Are special perks for VIPs in India justified?

The race for VIP perks has pernicious consequences and is undermining the elite's authority, says Devesh Kapur. Edward Said once wrote a short piece examining people in positions of power and......

India's biggest problem: Scarcity of land

India must mount nothing short of a war effort to address what is becoming a binding constraint on India’s development, explain Devesh Kapur, T V Somanathan & Arvind Subramanian. Capital,......

Bengal: The Tea Party state

West Bengal's politicians have starved their state of revenue, and thus crippled its ability to serve its citizens, writes Devesh Kapur A fundamental tenet of state power is its capacity to extract......