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By Ganesh N Devy |
The contempt of court case against the Tamil actor Suriya (which was fortunately and wisely dropped by the Madras High…
By T Jacob John |
Across India, about 1.5 million schools were shut as part of the nation-wide lockdown, affecting 247 million children,…
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 Arun Maira |
Two Indian initiatives have found places amongst the ten best global initiatives selected by the Rockefeller Foundation…
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 Jagdish Rattanani |
The statement by the father of Rhea Chakraborty reflects the pain and the discomfort many might feel at the manner in…
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…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the run up to the 2012 presidential elections in the United States, the Guardian newspaper published a story of how…
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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…
By Haresh Jagtiani |
The Indian Supreme Court to hold that the two tweets of Prashant Bhushan have brought that institution into disrepute…
By Ajit Ranade |
In his latest stint Urjit Patel spent five years at the Reserve Bank of India, three as a Deputy to Raghuram Rajan, and…
By Rupa Rege Nitsure |
Acharya’s propositions strongly reflect the tumultuous period (2017 to 2019) for the Indian financial sector when he…