Praveen Chakravarty

Chairman, All India Professionals’ Congress.

Praveen Chakravarty

We are about to spend a session, a constitutional amendment and God knows how many broken parties—over the meaning of a single word

The constitutional amendment we aren’t debating

Praveen Chakravarty

17 Jul 2026

5 min read

The index uses 42 parameters and 3.55 crore observations, distinguishes rural and urban living standards within each parameter, and produces a continuous score rather than a binary classification

Layers within Telangana's caste pyramid

Praveen Chakravarty

08 May 2026

4 min read

The FM surprised with a 40 percent increase in allocation for MGNREGA (new and old), perhaps to quell the opposition’s fierce attack

Batting for one nation, one budget day

Praveen Chakravarty

02 Feb 2026

4 min read

60 million households demanded and received work under the nationwide rural employment guarantee scheme last year

Replacing MGNREGA with G RAM G masks economic failure

Praveen Chakravarty

23 Dec 2025

4 min read

Female voters stand in queues to cast their ballots at a polling station in Bihar on November 6, 2025

Cash transfers and women voters: Perils of an unchecked narrative

Praveen Chakravarty

09 Dec 2025

4 min read

Across the 12 states and Union territories in which the special roll revisions are being phased out, 51 crore voters are being scanned.

Nationwide SIR | When a clean-up becomes a mess

Praveen Chakravarty

27 Nov 2025

4 min read

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