Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment carving out a new category of reserved quota for government jobs and…
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By Jagdish Rattanani |
Horrific stories are emerging from the factories complex in Zhengzhou in central China owned and operated by Foxconn, which is the world’s largest assembler of Apple iPho
By Martin Macwan |
The successful agitation of Gujarat, the ‘Patidar Andolan’, demanding reservation brought us to the 103rd amendment to the constitution of India, granting 10 per cent…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
Elaben Bhatt breathed her last on 2 November 2022 at the age of 89. She was quintessentially a Gandhian volunteer. She was a critical observer, careful analyst, and…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Iran is on a boil. Women are up in arms and the uprising is being crushed by the Iranian government, making world headlines that once again point to the brutality…
By Ajit Ranade |
If you use the internet, you cannot do so without using Google. It is the oxygen of the internet. It is the name of a company, but it has become a verb in the English…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The election of Mallikarjun Kharge as the first non-Gandhi family President of the Congress in the 21st Century is good news not only for the Congress party but also the…
By Arun Maira |
Concepts of “social enterprises” are gaining some traction. Some are basically “more of the same”, only prettier. They remain conventional, limited liability companies;…
By Ajit Ranade |
The United Kingdom has had four Prime Ministers in the last six years. Their most recent Chancellor of the Exchequer (i.e., the finance minister) was sacked in a record…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Well, the world has moved, and so has India. But we may be creating a new “us” and “them” problem right within our borders if the issues are not presented in a fair and…
By Ajit Ranade |
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…
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…