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Frequent landslides, the Kedarnath tragedy, a sinking Joshimath and the most recent Silkyara tunnel collapse are among…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Conventional calculations of the cost of war seldom include a major casualty: the environment. The toll is huge and…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar unveiled a statue of Rabindranath Tagore at the International…
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Health services have traditionally been understood to be about patients reaching a clinic, hospital or a defined place…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Success, and the accolades that come with it, can hide many problems. Something similar may be happening in the space…
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A week before the mega event in New Delhi, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that he would not be able to make it…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS) is a prestigious deemed Indian university and a pioneering 63…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A lot has been written on the normalisation of what have come to be called “encounter killings”, the extrajudicial…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last week we celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, an occasion to dis-cover and rediscover a giant of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It was not very long ago that spam messages and forwards used to be not about the veracity of Prime Minister Narendra…
By GN Bajpai |
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered…
By Nachiket Mor |
It is true that we cannot ignore the more commen ailments which, too, cause death and devastation in families, but…
By Thomas Isaac |
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24, presented last week in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The sudden and steep crash in Adani group stocks took away some of the glow of the Union Budget news headlines. The…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term, scheduled to be…