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The UK family affords us all the security to live our lives as equals

 When I was the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland I had some wonderful and importantly productive visits to India and always remarked how the people I...

Public diplomacy in international affairs

Public business diplomacy: Navigating the interconnected and fragmented global landscape

In the current geopolitical system, transitioning from a unipolar to a multipolar world, an irony confronts us all on the one hand, a rapidly interconnected and digitally transformed world, on...

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The path for Indian torture legislation: Where are we now and where should we go?

The lathi has become a symbol synonymous with the police force in India, where everyday discourse has normalised and accepted the state-sanctioned use of violence. Ved Marwah writes for the...

Dr Raghuram Rajan

Ideas for India 2023 brings together ministers, central bankers, policy and business leaders from across the world

The second edition of Bridge India’s flagship Ideas for India conference was part of the inaugural India Week, which saw more than 900 attendees attend from six countries. Ideas for...

Rishi Sunak Asia Pacific Trade Deal

Asia Pacific Trade Deal Highlights Indian Potential

When Rishi Sunak’s government hailed the new Asia Pacific trade deal as ‘the most important since Brexit’, it was putting an optimistic spin on a pretty marginal agreement. Official figures...

Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi

Sheikh Hasina’s hopeful India visit

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s three-day official India visit is coming up from 5th September. Last time Hasina was in India was in 2019 three years ago, before the global...

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Improving the diversity of Indian institutions

Indian institutions are not diverse and are not representative of the population and this skews the outcomes they deliver to different segments of the Indian population. Despite contrary empirical evidence...

Rahul Gandhi at Ideas for India

Bridge India’s inaugural Ideas for India conference brings together 500+ stakeholders from across India and the world

LONDON, May 23, 2022: The inaugural edition of the Ideas for India conference ended on Friday after three days of rich discussion on public policy. The three-day event on 18-20...

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India paves the way for CSR and a more sustainable future

From the wealthy West to the global South, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has now become a mainstream concept. But did you know that India (in 2014) was the first country...

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

– Mahatma Gandhi