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By Vandana Shiva |
The theme of the 2022 Mother Earth Day, which is on Friday, April 22, is “invest in our planet”. The original meaning…
By Vandana Shiva |
Sri Lanka is facing a severe political and economic crisis. The crisis has multiple roots but has intensified in the…
By Pavitra Mohan |
India ushers in World Tuberculosis day in 2022 on 24 March with mixed feelings. As the COVID pandemic (hopefully) wanes…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A deputy commissioner of police in Mumbai has gone missing and has now moved the courts for anticipatory bail after…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
One message of the BJP’s 4-1 victory in the Assembly polls is that it can turn around a poor performance and anti-…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If credibility is to come to corporate governance, the pool of directors must be widened to include people from a…
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March 10, 2022 would be an important day for all concerned when the results of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
As the pandemic recedes, some memories will not. One of the more terrible outcomes of Covid-19 was the isolation of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The “row” in Karnataka over wearing the hijab or head scarf by some Muslim girl students which began at a college in…
By Indira Hirway |
The slogan with which the present government came to power was “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”, i.e. Growth for All by…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on the ascendant in Gujarat, there was a lot of talk about the so-called “Gujarat…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Raising the age of marriage for girls in India from 18 to 21 is a not a simple step that will bring all-encompassing…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Shah Rukh Khan once said: “First get rich, then become a philosopher.” It’s now time for him to look up to Balraj Sahni…
By Lekha Rattanani |
It is this prestigious University with its rich history that has now decided to drop some inconvenient truth from its…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The developments in Afghanistan send out many complex messages but the one that is not in doubt is that an endless…