The Covid -19 pandemic has mercilessly pummelled the health system globally. The human toll exceeds many times the number of those killed in the atomic bombings of…
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By Arun Maira |
75 years after its Independence, India is shining at the top—the rich at the top have done very well post liberalisation. Local solutions, even small solutions,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is a steady echo of voices asking for the Prime Minister to step aside, many demanding that he take responsibility for leading us straight into the mouth of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of Covid-related drugs and vaccines be suspended. This…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It is only but very rarely that a central bank announces emergency liquidity and other measures whose ‘immediate objective is to preserve human life and restore…
The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum Institute of India) is in India.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The severity, penetration and pervasiveness of the second wave of the pandemic opens new questions on the optimism of the authorities in India as also of the…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The Maharashtra police-politician squabble is now being legally processed by the CBI under orders of the Bombay High Court. Hence this analysis is not on that specific…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like Turkey, USA and Brazil.
By Arun Maira |
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the other, vaccines. Lockdowns with social distancing were implemented in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to thrive and spread with impunity is the disease that we have had for long –…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide on the main policy interest rate. This is the rate at which the RBI…
By Lekha Rattanani |
So why is India surprised when Sachin Vaze, an assistant police inspector, was found camped in a five-star hotel, drove a Mercedes, and could walk into the Police…
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The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the same time improve India’s score in the ease of doing business.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The monetary policy announced on April 07, 2021 has been along expected lines, on the surface. But barely below the surface are some concerns that pose a host of…