Why India’s middle class is central to its development narrative
By Sujoy Chakravarty A few articles in The Economist (‘The Elephant in the Room: India’s Missing Middle Class’, goo.gl/dfjubz; ‘India Has a Hole Where Its Middle Class Should Be’, goo.gl/gbX a9v) from...
View ArticleLimitless Enjoyment
By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar With victory over attachment, you find unlimited enjoyment, naturalness automatically arises in you, and you can succeed in any work. There is no use getting entangled in the...
View ArticlePlastic ban: Incentivise options for single-use plastic to make a national...
By Milind Deora From the invention of the first man-made plastic by Alexander Parkes in 1855, to its contemporary ubiquitousness, our romance with plastic has been heady. There is no industry in the...
View ArticleGetting real about real estate: Increasing buyer confidence is need of the hour
By Amit Kumar Agarwal The dream of owning a home has been on the priority list of every middle-class person. The last decade hasn’t been a good one for these aspirants, insolvency cases resulting out...
View ArticleSports gambling: Bet you haven’t made up your mind
By Desh Gaurav Sekhri The Law Commission of India (LCI) in its 276th report has recommended regularising sports betting in India. This is along the lines of the proposal recommending sports betting in...
View ArticleFear: Real and illusory
By David A Schwerin All human beings have fears; the degree differs among individuals. There is fear of public speaking, fear of dying, fear of pain, fear of relinquishing control, fear of experiencing...
View ArticleManaging oneself
By Alice Boyes Research shows that scheduling when and where you’ll do something makes it dramatically more likely that the task will get done. For very important and long-avoided tasks, I like a...
View ArticleVote in The Hague on the Chemical Weapons Convention: Symptomatic of a...
By Anil Wadhwa On 27 June, 2018, the Fourth Special Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)met at The Hague and approved a draft decision moved by the UK...
View ArticleLynching and trolling: Why political parties can’t absolve themselves of...
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay The lynching spree, which has seen some 17 people — wrongly perceived to be child kidnappers — murdered across India in the last three months, seems totally unrelated to the...
View ArticleForeign Portfolio Scheme: A strange kind of treatment
By Nishith Desai & Richie Sancheti The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), in its circular of April 10, in the process of clarifying ‘Know Your Client’ (KYC) norms, denied non-resident...
View ArticleIn pursuit of excellence
By Azim Jamal Excellence means doing your best at whatever you do. Doing your best requires competence. But that competence doesn’t come without effort. As Olympic swimming medallist Mark Spitz put it,...
View ArticleUnfortunate, Centre is trying to delay SC order on Delhi by not letting go of...
Atishi Marlena The people of Delhi elected Aam Aadmi Party in February 2015 with an unprecedented mandate. AAP’s campaign platform was not glamorous, but it represented the issues that truly mattered...
View ArticleHow the pressure of ‘modernisation’ make humanities education crumble
By Rimi B Chatterjee On July 4, the vice-chancellor and the executive council of Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata, voted to do away with the existing Faculty of Arts admission tests, and replace them...
View ArticleOn smart infrastructure
By Jonathan Woetzel Et Al Smart technologies change the nature and economics of infrastructure. They reduce the cost of gathering information about usage patterns — and with an unprecedented volume of...
View ArticleStep Back and Examine
P VAIDYANATHAN When we are faced with problems, our normal human tendency is to get seriously focused and involved with the problem. We tend to continuously keep thinking about the problem and we...
View ArticleData Protection: Big brother is data-mining you
By Anjana Menon Reliance Industries stamped itself on India at its annual general meeting (AGM). It declared itself the country’s top company, largest exporter, highest taxpayer, fastest-growing mobile...
View ArticleStress in the modern age
By Pramod Pathak Earlier, the vagaries of nature gave us stress. The uncertainty as to what was going to befall us caused stress. The struggle for survival created stress as fear and anxiety bogged us....
View ArticleWhy LIC-IDBI Bank deal is unthinking, unprincipled and will hurt policyholders
By Omkar Goswami After attaining enlightenment, Lord Buddha was continuing to meditate under the same peepul tree at Bodh Gaya. Only Ananda, his disciple, cousin and personal attendant, was sitting...
View ArticleHigher education: Why have degrees around necks?
By Rita McGrath & M Muneer The ministry of human resource development has just released the draft of the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill, 2018, that will repeal the earlier UGC...
View ArticleFeel & show respect
By Brahma Kumaris Respect is to never laugh at someone. Every one of us is unique. So be respectful; keep yourself equidistant between strength and weakness. With a child, not saying: you’re such a...
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