Well-travelled international law teachers, students, and practitioners know there are a few countries that defy mastery. Repeated trips to such countries across decades, and still the sense of wonder, indeed inscrutability, prevails. At or near the top of this short list of countries that...

During the post independence era, India was well known as an agrarian economy with a weak industrial base, very low level of employment opportunities and serious regional imbalances. The public sector was forced to play a dominant role in developing the economy because the private sector neither...

"India's surge in high, well-sustained economic growth captured the world's attention for much of the period from the 1990s to the early 2010s. Often paired with China as being at the leading edge of emerging economies, the last few years have witnessed shortfalls in India's performance, which...

"In The Turn of the Tortoise, T N Ninan explores the paradox of a 'premature superpower' (as Martin Wolf once described India in the Financial Times). India has grown from the 12th largest economy in 2008 to what IMF reckons is the 7th largest in 2015, even as its people are poorer than those in...