Opinion
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Stopping the water pandemic
Integrated water resource management and policy regulatory mechanisms with differential entitlements and pricing will help -
Decoding General Bajwa’s speech
Is Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff really serious about peace and South Asia regionalism? -
Restart of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and issues
With Suspension Amendment ending on March 25 and the ‘one-shoe-fits-all’ law being back in business, many areas need clarity -
New Secretariat, new identity for Telangana
The new complex will be like a memorial to the sacrifices that Telangana’s people made for political freedom -
A tough fight in Assam
Unkept promises and unhappiness on CAA and NRC make this election a formidable challenge for BJP -
Who is winning Tamil Nadu?
Post Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, the overall political equation is yet to mature and new parties will play a spoiler -
Grass‘routes’ to self-reliance
Facilitating grassroots innovation to address rural needs is critical to building self-sufficiency in unprecedented times -
Solution for rural poverty
The farmers’ agitation has highlighted the crisis in agriculture that the farm laws fail to address – rising landless poor -
Indo-Pak impact on Afghan talks
It is nice that the US is including India in the Afghan initiative but Pakistan’s centrality has been spelt out clearly -
Quad must avoid ‘China trap’
Beijing wedge diplomacy will be a test for the group’s solidarity in its efforts to provide a regional counterweight to China -
Homes as information-habitats
Merged in information flows and producing these flows ourselves in acts of domesticity, we accept surveillance -
Biden will prove good for India
The US cannot afford to alter its policy towards New Delhi for it needs India to balance Chinese power in Asia -
Economic growth, deadlier pandemics
We need to stop thinking of ourselves as somehow above or outside the natural systems that support us -
Towards a ‘feminist’ foreign policy
If a power like the US makes a concerted effort to improve women’s rights, the world could change in positive ways -
China can resolve Myanmar crisis
An internationally isolated Myanmar can put a spoke in the central idea of China’s Belt and Road Initiative – connectivity -
Economy on the cusp of recovery
Banks and non-banks must use liquidity windows and newfound demand for credit to push economic revival aggressively -
An uneven political field for women
Political parties are still reluctant to provide an equal opportunity and share to women in the power structure -
Covid vaccines and IPR
The Covid tragedy should trigger a rethink of the current intellectual property policies adopted by developed countries -
Why repressive Saudi remains US ally
Biden is grappling with the reality that Saudi Arabia is needed to achieve US objectives in Middle East -
Put electoral reforms first
Unless we control money play in elections, all the other so-called reforms will not yield desired results -
Local journalism costs money too
Digital giants paying for content is good but the biggies grabbing it all could be ominous for local journalism -
Union Budget: Doubling farmers’ income a mirage
Budget 2021-22 does not inspire confidence to even increase farmers’ income, so doubling it is far fetched -
Universities may grow stronger
They have thrived despite past disruptions and Covid-19 is unlikely to impact their growth trajectory adversely -
New tensions on the seas of Asia
Chinese new law on maritime policy raises the possibility of the use of armed force by the Coast Guard of the country
