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By Beni Sumer Yanthan Brother, Your blood has drenched this earth And soaked up our sins, Your silent screams now hang above This parched town Where the mist gathers at dusk To pay homage to your last moments. Your body became the battlefield Of a republic at war with itself, Your song is now a […]
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By V Upadhyay In mainstream economics, the questions related to distribution are generally not considered very significant. Discussion of distribution is confined to the field of Welfare Economics where utilitarianism provides an important theoretical framework to debate social welfare issues. Utilitarianism had initially allowed for redistributive measures if they had the effects of increasing total […]
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Non-implementation of open-ended procurement policy in true letter and spirit is against the mandate of Food Corporation of India
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Not buying parboiled rice in Yasangi effectively means not buying a single grain from Telangana this season
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The problem is consistency, and from time to time, Indian focus keeps shifting from the SAARC region
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Though an important policy direction, National Monetisation Pipeline is fraught with risks, and requires careful planning and implementation
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With cooperation and dialogue, the international community can leverage COP26 to reduce the points of friction
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By Pramod K Nayar “You…have a natural flair for justice, and that has led to your having a natural flair for crime”. “It was feeling…It wasn’t really…logical deduction. It was based on a kind of emotional reaction or susceptibility to – well, I can only call it atmosphere”. These two quotes between them encapsulate the […]
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With depleting coal stocks and rising energy demand, going big on green power is the best bet
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With both QUAD and AUKUS jostling for strategic relevance, the two left out countries of QUAD — Japan and India —may feel peer pressure to integrate more with the US military alliance system
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When startups can raise billions without any difficulty, why is infra financing proving to be a puzzle over decades?
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As the woman who changed Germany demits office after 16 years as Chancellor, there’s a new German Consensus that there will be no more new fences
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Crypto cannot be a currency because the fundamental element of a currency — that it should be a legal tender — is missing in this case
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By Pramod K Nayar Poetry has often had to engage with the horrors of industrialisation or imperialism. The English Romantics’ antipathy towards railway lines is well known. As industrial modernity continued on its unstoppable way, cities like Paris and London were transformed from the inside out. Alongside machines, industrial complexes and urbanisation, poets also observed […]
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As the US called curtains on its ‘forever war’ and evacuated its last soldier, it left behind a country in a complete mess. Even its own coalition partners were dismayed and could make little of Washington’s harried exit. Many Afghans are now without a ‘home’ and almost half the population needs humanitarian assistance to survive. […]
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Frederick Forsyth’s masterly tweaking of the spy thriller gave us a classic that made murder a high-class, highly skilled profession
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The fate of Afghanistan’s rich archaeological history, art and artefacts remains uncertain
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Margaret Cousins, an Irish by birth, set the tune and Herbert Murrill, an English musician, made it speedy and bouncy on the lines of French national anthem La Marseillaise
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Equipping and empowering our migrants to deal with the complications that arise at various stages of migration is no more an option
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In fragile Northeast abound with border disputes, the flare-up between Assam and Mizoram over territorial claims is risky
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The world’s ‘Second Oldest Profession’ -- spying and espionage -- has been an integral part of the state system way before Pegasus
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The Olympics beginning in Tokyo from July 23 will see many firsts -- deferred by a year, no crowds, athletes in a bio-bubble and stringent protocols
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Trying out a new system of Theatre Command when India is facing a Two Front Threat and the current system is serving well could have us wrong-footed
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Despite several turbulent events, failed experiments and policies, the party persists
