Big changes sometimes come without big headlines. One of these happened last month in California, the largest and the most productive States in the US which comprises…
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The comprehensive caste survey (CCS) released by the Bihar government on Gandhi Jayanti has caused a flutter, reviving memories of the early 1990s which were…
By Ajit Ranade |
It is a truism that reduction in poverty needs higher economic growth, which can cre-ate jobs and incomes. India’s per-capita income at 3000 dollars, or about 2.4 lakh…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
What is clear is that till such time the headline inflation in India is on a consistently downward trajectory from its present level, policy rate in India will stay at 6…
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Health services have traditionally been understood to be about patients reaching a clinic, hospital or a defined place of diagnosis, treatment, or care. However, unless…
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In the spring of 1915 a group from the Phoenix experiment in South Africa, where Gandhiji had founded in 1904 an Ashram type of community called the “Tolstoy Farm”, were…
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In the spring of 1915 a group from the Phoenix experiment in South Africa, where Gandhiji had founded in 1904 an Ashram type of community called the “Tolstoy Farm”, were…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The abusive and communal epithets hurled by the BJP MP from South Delhi Ramesh Bidhuri against the BSP MP Kunwar Danish Ali represent a race to the bottom, a steep if…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s fiscal situation is more dire than is acknowledged. If we compare the debt service ratio, i.e. how much of the government’s revenue goes simply to pay interest…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Success, and the accolades that come with it, can hide many problems. Something similar may be happening in the space of population planning and management. In…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The success of the movie is therefore good news, but it remains to be seen what will follow and how Bollywood can or will embrace this new road
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As the G20 summit wound up in New Delhi on September 10, China must be pondering over the emergence of a world order that seems to be slipping from its hands
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A week before the mega event in New Delhi, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that he would not be able to make it to the G20 meeting, the most powerful economic…
By Ajit Ranade |
ONOE is not likely to make a dent, and that is its very purpose. Much debate and discussion are expected in the coming days, but the road ahead for ONOE is bumpy for sure
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India is over the moon, having landed its craft on the south pole and becoming only the fourth country to land on the lunar surface. There is understandably a sense of…