For so many students sitting in their homes and not knowing when the lockdown will end for their particular schools or colleges, this is a difficult time. Opening up has…
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By Ajit Ranade |
In September 2018 a five-judge constitution bench that included the Chief Justice of India, pronounced an important verdict on criminals in politics. The Supreme Court…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
Very few people outside India’s North-East are familiar with the achievements and legacy of one of the most fascinating dynasties in the nation’s medieval history,…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid pandemic has highlighted the urgency for economists to find a ‘new normal’ economics, which they have been searching for ever since the global financial crisis…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as ways of pushing economic growth in the medium term. Speaking to…
By John Chelladurai |
‘Social distancing’ has become the phrase of the year, perhaps the decade. An essential practice in the given situation, it has evidently saved a million lives and is lik
By Ajit Ranade |
Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract, there could be a remedy in the form of a punishment…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
There was a unanimous decision to hold the policy repo rate constant primarily because the headline inflation measured in terms of Consumer Price Index Combined (CPC-C)…
By Martin Macwan |
Hathras is the first case of Independent India where the State has deprived the parents of sexual abuse victim to respectfully cremate their child by forcefully burning…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
An 18-year-old girl had been brought out of one of the best-known public hospitals in the country and left at the curb. She had been discharged from the hospital because…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, which concluded its third meeting for 2020-21 on Friday, kept the policy rate unchanged at 4 per cent and also announced its…
By Ajit Ranade |
This is the first time in India’s history that we are experiencing a steep recession without any adverse shock of drought or a failed monsoon affecting agriculture.
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Three farm bills passed by the parliament last week have become a bone of contention. At one level, they are a step in the right direction but have failed to get the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The overwhelming feeling that comes to mind about the manner in which the Uttar Pradesh administration has handled the alleged rape of a dalit girl by her upper caste…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to building as also to breaking – be it a policy, an institution or for that matter a nation. One is the top down approach…