October 9, 2026

Energy & Climate

ORF America

The India We Remember Is Not the India Powering ...

By Piyush Verma

Energy for Billions: India’s Turnaround and the World’s Future explores the energy choices that can help realize the ambition of Viksit Bharat — a developed India — and the lessons other economies might draw from India’s achievements and unfinished work.

The India We Remember Is Not the India Powering the Future

September 30, 2026

Energy & Climate

ORF America

AI data centres are generating their own power. ...

By Piyush Verma

The grid is more than a machine for moving electrons. It is a shared system of costs, responsibilities and reliability. As AI campuses bring their own power, the question is not whether they are on or off the grid, but what they owe it when they still depend on it.

AI data centres are generating their own power. How does that affect the wider grid?

September 30, 2026

Background Paper, Economic Development

ORF America

Overcoming the Absorption Dilemma: The Need for ...

Background Paper No. 40

By Udaibir Das and Pietro Zecca

Overcoming the Absorption Dilemma: The Need for Deployment Sustainability Analysis in an Era of Aid Contraction

September 29, 2026

Special Report

ORF America

Agentic AI and India: Implications for ...

Edited Volume

By Soumya Awasthi, Ishita Deshmukh, Sameer Patil, Kavya Wadhwa, Purushraj Patnaik, Pranoy Jainendran, Sameer Patil, Rahul Rawat, Debjyoti Chakravorty, Basu Chandola, and Tanusha Tyagi

Editor: Dhruva Jaishankar

Agentic AI and India: Implications for Security, Governance, and International Partnerships

September 21, 2026

Economic Development

ORF America

Asia beyond buffers: the second-generation ...

By Udaibir Das

Policy-makers cannot prevent every shock, but they can influence how prepared the economy is to deal with them, by reducing exposures, protecting essential functions and preserving policy room. Asia built its first generation of financial defenses after a crisis. It should build the second before the next.

Asia beyond buffers: the second-generation resilience agenda

January 2023

ORF America

January 25, 2023

Foreign Policy & Security

Internal Reasons for Repeated Cycle of Political Collapse in Afghanistan

ORF America

January 25, 2023

Foreign Policy & Security

Internal Reasons for Repeated Cycle of Political Collapse in Afghanistan

By Sadiq Amini

Afghanistan’s history is filled with stories of collapse.

ORF America

January 23, 2023

Economic Development

Budget 2023 must focus on agricultural productivity, not production. Go beyond populism

ORF America

January 23, 2023

Economic Development

Budget 2023 must focus on agricultural productivity, not production. Go beyond populism

By Anit Mukherjee

Data is a challenge, but with imaginative incentives, metrics, and solutions such as an AgriStack, we can look forward to a new agricultural revolution over the coming decade.