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What is Gosh! all about. A brief note to set out the broad theme of the project and what we hope to achieve.
By Ajit Ranade |

The economic data for the second quarter i.e. the period from July till September was published by the government on November 30.

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Frequent landslides, the Kedarnath tragedy, a sinking Joshimath and the most recent Silkyara tunnel collapse are among the disasters that have kept the spotlight on the…
By Nachiket Mor |
Just over five years have now passed since the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), launched in 2018, came into being. During this period, it has issued over 27…
By GN Bajpai |
As the sanctum sanctorum of India’s democracy, the Parliament, moved house from the historic structure to a new facility, it underlined the theme of change that has…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Food inflation, which was in double-digits in July, fell to 6.2 per cent in October, 2023, with a correction in vegetable prices.  However, inflation pressures…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Conventional calculations of the cost of war seldom include a major casualty: the environment. The toll is huge and runs on. This can be seen now with the world in the mi
By Ajit Ranade |
Sovereign gold bonds were introduced by the Union government eight years ago. Since then, these bonds, sold through the Reserve Bank of India have been sold periodically…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar unveiled a statue of Rabindranath Tagore at the International Friendship Park in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh province. Vietnam h
By Ajit Ranade |
Earlier this month, at an election rally, the Prime Minister made an important announcement. That the free food scheme, known as Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Anna…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is something very 19th-century, Bombay mill-owner type of flavour to the comment by N R Narayana Murthy that the youth must work 70-hour weeks to help increase…
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A study of older (45+) Indian adults recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine finds that while several drivers of cardiovascular disease are present amongst
By Ajit Ranade |
The three most important macroeconomic variables for a country are the foreign ex-change rate, the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. The first is accurately and…
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Shiv Khera, whose website tells us that he has put "millions of people on the path of growth and fulfillment", emphatically says in this video that he is not.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The findings of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023 in respect of India should not be allowed to be side-tracked by the remarks of the Union Minister of Women and Child…