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By Ajit Ranade |
India’s 74 years of existence as a sovereign independent nation is a minor miracle. At its birth, not many outside…
By Sudarshan Iyengar, Jagdish Rattanani |
The growing influence of large and powerful business conglomerates continue to raise concerns, not only in India but…
By Tushar Gandhi |
To convert a shrine of our independence movement and the life of the couple who lived there into a tourist plaza, an…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s young demography has been considered to be its structural advantage. Half the population is below the age of 27…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the tyranny unleashed on…
By Ajit Ranade |
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha Rao was sworn in as…
By Ajit Ranade |
The official economic data for the first quarter will be published by the end of May. Last year from October onwards…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The Maharashtra police-politician squabble is now being legally processed by the CBI under orders of the Bombay High…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the other, vaccines.…
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…