Tested & Won: It was a valuable win for both the Indian team and the test format
By Boria Majumdar Accusations of cheating, brain fades on either side, banter, sledging and finally off-the-field theatrics – it was a series that had it all. From the first day in Pune to the last...
View ArticleFocus shifts to GST execution on ground
The government is committed to implement GST before the July 1deadline and seems to be moving at a fast place to get the law, rules and other requirements in place.
View ArticleWith India Inc unclear about certain key aspects of GST, postponing it makes...
By Pratik Jain The goods and services tax (GST) has received unprecedented support from all quarters. Government believes it will lead to revenue buoyancy, industry expects a simpler and more...
View ArticleSwachh Bharat: Picking up a clean habit
By Parameswaran Iyer Halfway into the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA), grassroots leaders like sarpanches, especially women, are playing an increasingly pivotal role in accelerating...
View ArticleFuture shocks
By Robert Shiller I am worried that technical progress, robots, will be replacing common labour. The problem is that robotics is on the verge, it seems, of replacing many basic functions that labour...
View ArticleDhyana and the spirit
By Ezekiel Isaac Malekar Every one of us should find the time for meditation and communion with the Creator. We should judge and determine if our actions are correct, whether they are appropriate...
View ArticleOff the ball: The Invisible Men
The fans don't notice them much, but just ask the coaches or teammates to know their contribution
View ArticleThe footblogger: Never too young to start
By: Sam Abraham Ashley Westwood would have been pleased. Sunil Chhetri holds it up, passes neatly to Jeje Lalpekhlua. He releases Udanta Singh on the right, timed just so and the youngster doesn’t have...
View ArticleLand of the Hamsas
By Yogiraj Gurunath I travelled from the foothills of the Himalayas, from the sacred city of Hardwar to Rishikesh, which houses the ashrams of spiritual masters like Swami Shivananda Dayanand Saraswati...
View ArticlePost-Modern Trends
By Gilles Duranton To assess the social cost of congestion, I looked at one particular city: Bogota, Colombia. I chose Bogota because I think we know far less about congestion in developing countries...
View ArticleAs far as rescuing Uttar Pradesh’s economy goes, the new state government has...
By Aurodeep Nandi In 2014, a documentary by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa called Katiyabaaz (Powerless) was released. The film focused on the complex politico-economic dynamics behind the agonisingly...
View ArticleMirrors could reduce stealing or dishonesty and could even be seen as a good...
By Anand Damani A greater degree of self-awareness can make us conscious of what we think, say and do. Self-awareness seems to originate somewhere in the mind. It feels like we become aware of...
View ArticleMeditation, music heal
By Jayam Anantharaman Human beings are the only species in God’s creation who make an issue out of nothing. Animals take life as it comes, but when man fails to do a certain thing or...
View ArticleIt is a mistaken belief that BJP’s majority was the result of a divisive...
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Among images from recent electoral battlefields, one scene in a western Uttar Pradesh village remains indelible. Women lined up on both sides of the constricted lane while a...
View ArticleCurrent issues
By Paolo D’Aprile ET AL Storing electric power cheaply and effectively has long offered tantalising benefits. Storage opens the door to harnessing intermittent wind and solar power, allowing utilities...
View ArticleTool for life management
By Yogacharya Kundan Kumar Yoga enables us to unite the individual soul with the ultimate eternal One. And, to achieve this union, we are faced with innumerable obstacles. But all hurdles are removed...
View ArticleInorganic Growth
By Cristina Ferrer Deal activity slowed in 2016, after four years of rapid growth, as companies retreated to smaller deals. At the same time, excess cash and pressure for growth pushed deal prices...
View ArticlePV Sindhu beat Carolina Marin a second time & her India Open win is proof of...
By Boria Majumdar I had a chat with PV Sindhu around noon on Sunday, hours before facing Carolina Marin in the India Open final, and told her that post Rio she had improved her sense...
View ArticleAs the PM gets set to shift gears from a domestic agenda, whither G20?
By: Pranab Dhal Samanta The world’s most powerful club is at the crossroads today. The Group of 20 (G20), which was reinvented to replace the G8 as a response to the economic crisis of the...
View ArticleA multicontributed public funding is the only way forward for election reforms
By: Anjana Menon India has attempted to overhaul election funding by allowing unlimited anonymous corporate backing for political parties through election bonds. At its best, it will allow most...
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