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By Ajit Ranade |
The economy shrank by nearly one fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The Covid-19 novel coronavirus continues to spread, by now afflicting all continents except the Antarctic. At the time…
By Ajit Ranade |
The past week has been dominated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remark alluding to an “act of God”. She was…
By Errol D'Souza |
Is migration to urban areas advantageous for rural migrants? The recent events as migrants fled for their villages as…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
India’s macro-economic scenario in the post-Covid era represents a severe contraction of economic activity. The…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In a course on journalism that I taught years ago, one exercise I often asked was for the class to roam around Mumbai’s…
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More than a 100 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi exhorted us not to be mesmerised by modernity. The COVID-19 pandemic in many…
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Death happens to everyone; but except in about 10% people where death comes suddenly, it happens with a slowly…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
The New Education Policy announced after 34 years claims to make way for large scale transformational reforms in…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy was already amidst a considerable slowdown in the pre-COVID-19 period. For example, the fiscal 2019-…
By Arun Maira |
It is widely accepted that the Post Covid world will not be the same. The disruptions in economies have been so severe…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is not difficult to see that the economy is in bad shape. Most Indians know this, experience it and can feel it in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The pandemic has caused the world to go into a deep recession this year. India is no exception. The Indian economy will…
There is much to criticise the ICMR for its recent diktat to deliver a vaccine for COVID-19 caused by SARS-Cov-2, by…
By Ishwar Gilada |
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Dr. Balram Bhargava, who is a cardiologist, has issued a…