A deputy commissioner of police in Mumbai has gone missing and has now moved the courts for anticipatory bail after complaints that he sought to extort Rs. 10 lakhs a…
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By Arun Maira |
Capitalism must be reformed, its critics say, to enable more equitable, socially responsible, and environmentally sustainable economic growth. The engines of free market…
By Ajit Ranade |
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia may not end abruptly though diplomatic and eco-nomic sanctions are being strongly applied. The sanctions are working as major Russian…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
One message of the BJP’s 4-1 victory in the Assembly polls is that it can turn around a poor performance and anti-incumbency with aggressive campaigning laced with doses…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If credibility is to come to corporate governance, the pool of directors must be widened to include people from a variety of fields – we need union leaders, social…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Russian invasion into Ukraine’s sovereign territory is very bad news for Europe-ans. It has the potential of unravelling belief in what is known as the post - World…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy is delicately poised. Growth is picking up but a strong, durable and sustainable growth trajectory is missing as capital formation or what is commonly…
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March 10, 2022 would be an important day for all concerned when the results of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur are declared. The centrepiece is Uttar…
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In 2017, Rajasthan’s Dholpur district launched a programme titled ‘Udaan’ to educate adolescents about their sexual health and quickly ran into some stiff opposition.…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
As the pandemic recedes, some memories will not. One of the more terrible outcomes of Covid-19 was the isolation of those infected, often in a hospital ward, amid…
By Vidyadhar Date |
Baje payal chhun chhun, one of the memorable melodies sung by Lata Mangeshkar, is about aspirational love among girls of age sixteen or thereabouts.
By Thomas Isaac |
India’s economic performance has been among the worst in the world. According to the IMF in 2020, India’s growth was (-)7.96, placing the country at the 150th rank,…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Although the last year was largely overshadowed once again by COVID-19, one event that arguably stood out was COP26. Whether it was a success or not is another matter,…
By Arun Maira |
If you want someone to not think of an elephant, don’t tell them to ignore elephants, George Lakoff advises in “Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent. As previously, while this decision was unanimous,…