Opinion

By B Yerram Raju The history of economics of nations reminds us that every nation on its growth trajectory found corruption, frauds, scams and unethical practices. Those that crossed these barriers through smart surveillance grew fast and big. However, in democracies like India, where people did not find the money for two-and-a-half centuries of British […]

By Dr Sonal Mobar Roy Catering to the needs of millions of people in the country, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (MGNREGS) is one of India’s flagship social protection programmes. It is the largest labour guarantee scheme in the world, offering 100 days of paid labour to every rural household. The origin […]

By Arun Sinha The Kashmir Files, the film centred on the exodus of Hindus from Jammu & Kashmir at the height of the separatist militancy in the 1990s, drew a picture of the then prevailing environment, which can be encapsulated as follows: one, the Central government was totally indifferent to the slaughter and sufferings of […]

By Sarah Schiffling, Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos Twenty million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukrainian silos, exacerbating the global food crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of the country. Aside from the need to get the grain onto world markets, freeing up storage space will be crucial to make room ahead of the country’s next […]

By Tej Singh Kardam In one of the United Nations water conferences, the United Nations Organization passed a resolution, which says; “All the people, whatever their stage of development and their social and economic conditions, have the right to have access to drinking water in quantum and of quality equal to their basic needs”. The […]

By Amitava Mukherjee Imran Khan knows it very well that the coalition government in Pakistan led by Shahbaz Sharif is now walking on thin ice. Although the present government has expressed its intention to complete the full term of the National Assembly, it will always remain open to inner contradictions. At this juncture, any astute […]

By Seela Subba Rao Prior to 2003, banks were not allowed to take up ‘insurance’ as a permissible form of business. Subsequently, they were permitted to undertake referral activities such as insurance business. Consequent to the announcement by the then Finance Minister in the Budget speech 2013-14 to permit banks as insurance brokers, the Reserve […]

In this changing world order, a strong united South Asia can make a difference and give weight to developing countries’ voices

By Dr Vanishree Joseph, Dr NV Madhuri Anaemia is one of the major dietary deficiencies in India, with preschool children and teenage girls, as well as pregnant and lactating mothers, being the most vulnerable groups. The primary cause of anaemia is the inadequate intake of iron-rich food. Household size, education level and other infectious diseases […]

Hyderabad: Two days before he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin in his long-winded, unhinged and bizarre speech while expressing his grievances against the West for its eastward expansion of NATO allegedly threatening Russia’s security, dismissed Ukraine’s existence as a state, stating it was a fiction and created by Lenin in 1922. […]

By JR Janumpalli June 2, 2022, marks the eighth anniversary of Telangana State’s formation. In these 8 years, the State’s forward march was very eventful and inspiring. For a region which was denied its statehood for six decades, forced to be in the company of a majority region and was fighting with its back to […]

By Krishank Manne After a visit to Hyderabad and Chennai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28 landed in Gujarat to inaugurate the world’s first Nano Urea Liquid plant. Last April, Modi visited Gujarat to launch projects worth Rs 20,000 crore, including the laying of a foundation stone for the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine, […]

By Dr Ranjith Reddy The process of formulating one-nation-one-tax started long ago but reached its logical conclusion by bringing the entire country under a unified indirect taxation system and, at the stroke of midnight of June 30/July 1st, GST, the biggest and landmark indirect tax reform in Independent India, became a reality. Prime Minister Narendra […]

By Arun Sinha There is a clear pattern in the way governors have been behaving with the governments in States. The governors in the BJP-ruled States have a warm, lovey-dovey relationship with their governments. In States where opposition parties friendly to the Modi government are ruling — such as Odisha and Andhra Pradesh — the […]

By Ranabir Samaddar Former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere once said: “When the elephants fight, the grasshoppers die; when the elephants make love the grasshoppers die.” It’s through this lens that many in the global South are watching the war in Ukraine, a European war that while distant, is driving a rethink of what it means […]

By Pramod K Nayar Girish Karnad, one of our most significant playwrights, pondered on the intricacies of transposed heads in Hayavadana. From a different context, Thomas Mann’s ‘The Transposed Heads’ (1940), set in India, was a precursor text. Mann and Karnad’s exploration of identity and belonging are not simply myth reworked, at least not since […]

By Adrianus Harsawaskita If the ancient Greeks are to be believed, the rivalry between the current great powers, America and China, will lead to war. American political scientist, Graham Allison popularised the situation as ‘Thucydides’s Trap’. In a 2013 article for the New York Times, he lamented the “dynamic inherent when a rising power becomes […]

The Chinese are far more able to prosecute an ideological conflict than a military one

By Siddiq Wahid The world is at an inflection point. The war in Ukraine shows no signs of abating, and the principals in the ‘new’ cold war, are asking other states to choose a side. The challenges for India are daunting. How can it contribute to world events in proportion to its demographic bulk, its […]

By Dr Oruganty Prasada Rao The buzzword the world over nowadays is ‘phase-out coal’. The idea is to limit the rise in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius, preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared with pre-industrial levels, as per the Paris agreement on climate change. What is wrong with coal Coal is a fossil fuel like […]

By Deepak Ray Rising competition for many of the world’s important crops is sending increasing amounts toward uses other than directly feeding people. These competing uses include making biofuels; converting crops into processing ingredients, such as livestock meal, hydrogenated oils and starches; and selling them on global markets to countries that can afford to pay […]

By Pramod K Nayar Media are conduits for communication between A and B. The very idea of a conduit for communication presupposes not just the possibility of a connection but a prior disconnection. Thus, A communicates with B, because A and B are disconnected, individual and separate. One of the uses that media forms like […]

By Seela Subba Rao The Centre in June 2021 approved an increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all mandated kharif crops for the marketing season 2021-22. The highest absolute increase in MSP over the previous year was recommended for sesamum (Rs 452 per quintal) followed by tur and urad Rs 300 per quintal each. […]

By Santhi Kumari A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can’t grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon – Dalai Lama A golden chapter has opened in the greening initiative of Telangana; with lakhs of people from various sections of society – from people’s representatives […]