-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
FACT Vs FICTION By B Sambamurthy All hell broke loose when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a private think […]
-
By Rituparna Kaushik Bhattacharyya The morning of June 22, 2022, saw a crowd of journalists and reporters huddled outside a luxury hotel in Guwahati to ensure that not a single nitty-gritty of the horse-trading was missed. While #MaharastraCrisis trended, the entire Assam grappled to breathe out of overflowing rivers, landslides, and disconnected life and livelihood. […]
-
Yes, surveillance is all-pervasive, and citizens carry their Citizen’s Card with them everywhere (like an Aadhaar Card). The government knows at all times about your whereabouts but people don’t seem to mind
-
By B Yerram Raju “Money begets money,” says Geoffrey Crowther. Absolutely true — whether it is with individuals, institutions, or nations. Why should nations borrow? One should go back to the post-world war economy. People lost all their wealth and assets in the war. To provide money in people’s hands, Keynes propounded ‘dig holes and […]
-
Maps during war time produced geographies of suffering, and geography in the Nazi era, was destiny
-
The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre is facing a huge diplomatic outrage from Gulf countries after its spokesperson and leader made derogatory references to Islam and Prophet Muhammad. New Delhi is struggling to contain the damaging fallout. Arab nations lodged official protests against India. Pakistan and Afghanistan also reacted strongly to […]
-
By V Thiagarajan Nobel laureate Paul Romer writes that “For more than three decades, macroeconomics has gone backwards.” He sees economists no longer being concerned with whether or not their predictive models have any practical relevance and says we have entered an era of “post-real” macroeconomics. He has been proved right beyond any doubt. According to most […]
-
By Dr Ramesh Chenamaneni In recent years, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has been issuing long-range rainfall forecasts for four divisions, namely: North Eastern India, Central India, North Western India and Peninsular India. Given the large spatial variation of rainfall and soils within these divisions, farmers in different sub-regions are unable to utilise these higher […]
-
By Amitava Mukherjee There are quite a few reasons why Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka, appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister of the country. First, Ranil Wickremesinghe is known to be close to the Rajapaksa family and it is more than likely that he will try to save both Gotabaya and Mahinda […]
-
By B Sambamurthy Real GDP hit a decadal high of 8.2% during 2016-17. Since then, it has been on a downward slide and declined to about 4% during 2019-20. Covid-19 inflicted significant damage to economic growth and growth hurtled to a negative 6.5% in FY 2021. Keeping the impact of Covid-19 aside, the deceleration of […]
-
The Telangana government last month signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), or more broadly a Mini-Free Trade Agreement, with the government of Thailand to explore trade and investment in key sectors. This is the first time that an agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Commerce of Thailand and a State government in India. […]
-
By V Thiagarajan The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently slashed its forecast for global economic growth by nearly a full percentage point citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, and warned that the world must brace itself for an economic slowdown as well as a burst in inflation. The IMF expects inflation to remain elevated throughout the […]
-
By Vijay Kumar You can think about this as an embodied internet operated by many different players in a decentralised way. You’re inside of rather than just looking at. We believe that it is going to be the successor to the mobile internet — Mark Zuckerberg, 2021 Euphoric Verse The rapid speed and scale of […]
-
By Dhananjay Tripathi Imran Khan, Pakistan’s hero of the 1992 World Cup cricket team, who till late appeared to bat well in politics too, suddenly got himself into a difficult situation. In the last few months, he was under mounting political pressure on his government by the opposition parties. Khan, after making all kinds of […]
-
HDFC and HDFC Bank merger sparks optimism, but regulatory costs, risks, and long-term integration challenges raise questions on sustained benefits
-
A nuclear landscape is not necessarily just Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima with their burnt human forms and devastated cities. Nuclear landscapes are terra nullius, nobody’s land, because they have been rendered unfit for life
-
Rising debt, shrinking foreign reserves, dismal fiscal and the pandemic are sinking the island nation Sri Lanka needs to make nearly $7 billion in payments on foreign loans this year. And its foreign reserves are dwindling fast. It faces huge debt obligations and is grappling with its worst economic meltdown since independence in 1948. The […]
-
By Sanskrithi Thakur Creation of forest as its lap has been Mother Nature’s greatest act of benevolence towards its children – be a tiny little insect or a ‘thinking and evolving’ human. In a perfect setting that could never be matched by the most creative set designer, a loving mother laid down everything from the […]
-
By Amitava Mukherjee While holding ‘Lenin and his associates’ responsible for the birth of Ukraine as a separate geographical identity, Vladimir Putin, the incumbent Russian President, has certainly failed to grasp the real message of history. Putin thinks that ‘Lenin and his associates did it in the sloppiest way in relation to Russia — by […]
