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While we aspire for the best in 2023, we have to perspire for all of it too
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To rewrite the history of a nation as built by only one community is to pretend there were never mergers, cohabitation, cooperation between/across cultures
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An inflation-targeting central bank like ours should have a credible inflation measure, and like every other key fiscal or monetary parameter, this too needs a check.
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As HEIs are pushed into industry-academic linkage to ensure accountability and measurable contributions to society, a host of questions flutter out from the shady groves of academia.
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We are witnessing a repeat of the 2000 Dotcom Bubble, with one crucial difference — given that tech is at the centre of everything we do today, any correction will be less severe and bounce back quicker.
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Simon Sundararaj scored a goal against Peru in the 1960 Rome Olympics – India’s last goal scorer. Six decades, 15 Olympics and 15 World Cups later, India awaits to replicate his momentous feat
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In 2022, the 125th year of its maleficently explainable existence in dozens of adaptations, the quote from Bram Stoker’s Dracula stays, like its central character, finely preserved, and like Shelley’s Prometheus, unbound.
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The Gen Z-led new wave of protests in Iran is raging against the heart of the cleric-led country’s identity – the compulsory veil – and is unlikely to fade away.
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By Amit Mishra Last week brought the closure of one of the much-awaited acquisitions in tech history, touted as one of the largest buy-outs of all time in the technological arena. Elon Musk’s $44-billion takeover of the social media platform Twitter buzzed the global mindspace with notes of excitement and agony. The week’s upheaval saw […]
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Telangana has planned 600 charging stations in one-two years which will translate into a charging point below every 2 km.
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In spite of India’s ignominious exit from the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup at the group stage, there is a renewed hope for a resurgence of interest in women’s football
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The buzzword of the day is ‘CBDC’ or Central Bank Digital Currency (e-rupee) as indicated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a recent concept paper.
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Xi Jinping is widely tipped to be given an extended term as CCP’s General Secretary. For the rest of the world, this means Xi will stay on as Chinese President for another five years, even possibly longer.
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During the last four decades (1980-2020), the average profit of industries grew nearly 50 times, number of factories too doubled during the last decade compared with the rest of the decades. And yet, manufacturing reaching its potential fifth position in the world as predicted by BCG in 2013 remains distant
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The lands and natives of the colonies were imprinted by signs of imperial monarchy so that they recognised they were subjects of the Empire
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To portray the Telangana peasants’ movement against the Nizam as an anti-Muslim struggle and the merger of Hyderabad princely state with the Indian Union as ‘liberation’ is absolute distortion of history
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By B Yerram Raju It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the […]
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The $30 trillion framework needs to capture the productive work of the bottom 30 crore people to make our growth sustainable
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Exclusivist and conformist Hindutva stands in opposition to the basic essence of inclusivist and diverse Hinduism
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By Dr Rehnamol P R Inder Meghwal, a 9-year-old Dalit boy from Jalore, Rajasthan, was allegedly beaten to death by his upper-caste teacher for drinking water from a pot that was exclusively kept for the upper castes on the school premises. The culprit belongs to the Rajput community. The Dalit child was denied his constitutional […]
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By Amit Banerjee During the last 75 years as an independent democratic country, our nation has had a chequered growth trajectory. Belying the views of sceptics, India has emerged as the world’s fifth largest economy and the third largest contributor to global economic growth. But with the failure of the ‘trickledown effect’ of our much-vaunted […]
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By Mallepalli Laxmaiah Should I hoist the national flag on my residence? This question has been haunting me ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted the countrymen to celebrate the national flag in connection with the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Independence from colonial rule is a reason for grand celebration in all countries that were […]
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When US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force jet, she became the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island. China instantly announced military maneuvers in retaliation, even as Taiwanese officials welcomed her. China said over 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in the live-fire […]
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By Pramod K Nayar On July 24, Pope Francis apologised for the forced schooling of indigenous children by European missionaries from the late 1800s, terming the events ‘catastrophic abuse’. His strong language, however, did not reference the origins of these heinous acts, which also began in words: the Papal Bulls from the 15th century. The […]
