Is the right to food a statutory right, a fundamental right or a human right? India is a signatory to the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural…
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By Pavitra Mohan |
September 23 in many senses is a landmark day in the context of India’s long and winding road to treating healthcare as a fundamental right. That was the day a right-to-…
By Arun Maira |
For thirty years, the thrust of global capitalism has been to make life easier for Wall Street, the City of London, and big business. Britain’s new Prime Minister and…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It would be a good idea for the central bank to revisit the issue of construction and publication of a Monetary Conditions Index for India.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If the ‘Bharat-jodo’ yatra continues to earn the goodwill it has thus far, that leader down the line and over the years may well be Rahul Gandhi but then he can…
By Ajit Ranade |
Three years ago, India abruptly walked out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade agreement among 15 nations, including China. The RCEP…
By GN Bajpai |
Narendra Modi has been commanding his entourage well. But the commands must turn into inspiration and lead to action and change on the ground.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is true that Gandhi emphasised duties over rights but he also showed us how it was a duty to stand up when rights were taken away by an unjust and unfair colonial…
By Ajit Ranade |
Measured in dollar terms, the size of the Indian economy surpassed that of the Unit-ed Kingdom, as per data from the last quarter of 2021. The calculation uses the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is not a secret that the pharmaceutical sector, for all that it has achieved in India, has created rather than solved a sales & marketing problem by normalising…
By Vidyadhar Date |
A recently released book about alleged corruption in the Mumbai Cricket Association or MCA is titled ‘Bouncer’. The title is appropriate in terms of cricket terminology…
By Martin Macwan |
It is over a month since Droupadi Murmu became the 15th President of India. She is the second woman and the first person from a tribal community to occupy the highest…
By Ajit Ranade |
There was an extraordinary heat wave in March in northern India which caused wheat yields to go down. The heat wave in Northern Europe was much worse, and has also…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Seventy-five years of Independence marks a significant milestone in the history of a nation rising. We can quibble over past events, remain distraught about the present…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The global economy is suffering from twin shocks of a massive slowdown in economic growth accompanied by sharp and unprecedented elevation of inflation