Editorial Analysis

Recently, India and the European Union (EU) announced a New Strategic EU-India Agenda, which includes a proposal to explore the integration of India’s Carbon Market with the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), marking a step toward aligning carbon market mechanisms between the Global North and South.

In recent years, India’s constitutional courts have revived the concept of ‘constitutional morality’ for constitutional interpretation and judicial reasoning, and has become a litmus test for the constitutional validity of laws and a safeguard against the volatility of public morality.

Recent Supreme Court data reveals that over 8.82 lakh execution petitions are pending across district courts nationwide, 3.38 lakh new petitions were filed in just six months, calling the situation ‘highly disappointing’ and ‘alarming’.

Urban India is buckling under the weight of rapid, unplanned growth, with dysfunctions ranging from clogged drains and toxic air to flooded streets and crumbling infrastructure — highlighting the urgent need for empowered city-level governance, often stifled by state control.

Multilateralism remains essential to global cooperation amid ongoing geopolitical tensions, climate crises, and rising nationalism.

The Supreme Court of India's directive to the Union government to enact a comprehensive law outlining the rights of domestic workers and to establish a committee for drafting the legislative framework remains shrouded in uncertainty, and progress remains slow.

India’s rivers, once the arteries of trade and cultural exchange, are being reimagined as engines of modern economic growth. 

The growth-driven model of development, rooted in the Industrial Revolution, has already pushed planetary boundaries beyond safe limits.

India has intensified efforts to diversify its global economic partnerships, and is focusing on large-scale connectivity projects such as the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC).

Caste-based atrocities, from rural villages to urban institutions, discrimination and violence against SCs and STs, continue to plague India’s social fabric, despite constitutional guarantees of equality and justice.