The first recorded instance of granting loans to peasants in medieval India dates back to the regime of Muhammad-bin-Tughluq (1325-51) when, to ameliorate the distress…
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By R Gopalakrishnan |
Soap is an ordinary product with an extraordinarily sophisticated action. It saves human lives in an affordable way. Corona virus has given me a reason to argue even…
By Vappala Balachandran |
It is disappointing to find Indian websites not easily yielding the text of the epoch making 1993 “Agreement on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquility along the Line…
Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr…
The pandemic has brought with it many horror stories not the least of which is the way in which the dead are being robbed of their dignity, and their family members…
By Ajit Ranade |
When the national lockdown was imposed on March 24, with four hours notice, the country had less than 200 positive cases and a two percent fatality rate. The world…
By Thomas Isaac |
The synchronisation of the responses of the Centre, the States and local governments is necessary and inevitable if the pandemic is to be contained. However, never have…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his party the Shiv Sena are today confronted with the BJP in all its ugliness, viciousness and pettiness
By Arun Maira |
JRD Tata was chairman of Tatas, India’s largest industrial conglomerate for 51 years, from 1938 to 1989. He steered the group through several regimes hostile to Indian…
In the last fortnight, Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar had two meetings in quick succession –- one with central trade union organisations and…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
There has been an unprecedented outflow of funds from the open-ended, closed-ended debt/fixed income schemes and hybrid schemes of mutual funds (MF) in India.
By Thomas Isaac |
The global economy and the national economy are facing a crisis which by scale and nature is unprecedented in modern history. On one side, the pandemic and lock downs…
By Indira Hirway |
We are witnessing a great humanitarian tragedy unfolding right in front of our eyes: large groups of hungry and jobless migrant labour struggling to go home and the…
There are unanswered questions around the origin, spread and transparency of communications about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the new coronavirus disease that…