Opinion

Doubling farmers’ income will remain a dream as long as the govt adopts ad hoc policies and schemes

Instead of UCC, the Centre must try to reform their customary laws to end discrimination against women

India may be wary of supporting Canada on Indo-Pacific given the Canadian PM’s soft-pedalling of the Khalistan issue

Many companies focus on hiring younger employees for productivity and efficiency, overlooking the unique skills of older generations

Rewilding projects are national meaning-making projects in many cases for they seek to bring back local animal species to revive/reinforce national identity

The SC has embarked on giving prominence to individual freedom through constitutional morality over ‘herd morality’ of the religious origin

China has invested too much in its relationship with Pakistan over the last 60 years for it to abandon the project or loosen its ties with Pakistan for that matter.

Communities close to nature must be at the centre of our actions as there cannot be one-size-fits-all approach

Behind the opposition between the US and China , we are witnessing a rivalry between political and governance models

Don’t deprive children of their screen time, rather ensure supervised limited exposure

Critics who denounce the provision of free electricity to the agricultural sector inadvertently reveal their contempt and animosity towards farmers and the sector as a whole

Current efforts are focused mainly on recycling or disposing of plastic but incentives are needed to replace them with environmentally friendly options

Allies could dissuade the US from taking a divisive path, but their own weaknesses are making them complicit

On paper, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana scheme seems good, but in reality, things are different

The success of PM-PRANAM hinges on farmers’ adoption of natural fertilizers but will they do it if they see no benefits in it?

Thuingalen Muivah, the general secretary of NSCN(I-M), is from Manipur and if the peace talks fail and the Nagas in Manipur districts rise in revolt then the situation will be complicated further

During 2018-20, Telangana achieved a further reduction in MMR to 43, which made the State among the few in India to achieve the SDG target

The Global South is flexing political and economic muscles that the ‘developing countries’ and the ‘Third World’ never had

While species loss is a process of Nature, the role humanity has played in their disappearance is undeniable

Many new States were reorganised in the country after independence, but they did not see such a high number of deaths as Telangana

Opposition parties need the presence of a statesman like Jayaprakash Narayan among them

Using drama to explore inner self allows one to experience hidden emotions and identify new ways of finding solutions

Telangana’s policy innovations are becoming policy learnings for other States and the central govt, enabling cooperative federalism

The inauguration of Parliament building by the President would have sent a strong message on inclusive governance