In the Wellness of All Things
By Amitabh Kant & Indu Bhushan The sight of a family teetering on the brink of hope and despondency, surviving and falling into economic ruin on account of ill health is distressingly common. GoI’s...
View Article2+2=A Different Ball Game
By Carlos M Gutierrez As we approach the 10th anniversary of the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement, both countries are on the cusp of yet another diplomatic milestone. The upcoming India-US...
View ArticleBeing Human & Its Discontents
By Romila Thapar A number of social activists have been writing on, and working for, human rights, often working together with those that have been denied these rights, even sometimes by people whom we...
View ArticleThis Could be Your B’day
By YOGI ASHWINI Janmashtmi is celebration of the birth of Krishna, avatar of Vishnu. Actually, it marks the day of your birth. What we call as birth is only a process we are going through, the...
View ArticleBanking on Scarcity
By ADAIR TURNER The dangers of excessive and harmful debt creation are inherent to debt contracts. But they are hugely magnified by the existence of banks, and by the predominance of particular...
View ArticleLeft-phobia may work for BJP
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay It is tempting to conclude that the arrest of five activists earlier this week is simply symptomatic of this administration’s intolerance of dissent, and that it is evidence of an...
View ArticleTwo aspects of krishna
Shri Shri Anandamurti The life of Krishna is divided into two parts: one is Krishna as Braja Krishna and the other as Parthasarathi Krishna, the king of Mathura. Parthasarathi’s was a tough role. The...
View ArticleManaging innovation
Jonah Sachs There is a natural tendency, especially under pressure, to feel a certain amount of anxiety and fear. But the innovators I spoke to who were able to break out had learnt to reframe...
View ArticleKrishna and His Love
By SEEMA BURMAN Krishna, the universal teacher, suggests an easy path to godhead, “Whatever you do, eat, offer in sacrifice, gift away, whatever austerity you practise… do it as an offering to Me”...
View ArticleEcological Worldview
By SATISH KUMAR We don’t need to go very far to learn from nature. Wherever we look with open eyes and a generous heart, we will find nature as teacher. Look at the honeybee; we can...
View ArticleNow You See It, Now You…
By Anirban Bandyopadhyay An Indian citizen from a scheduled caste (SC) or a scheduled tribe (ST) is entitled to the benefits of reservation in education and employment only in his or her ‘home’ state,...
View ArticleDevelopment cooperation marks Afghan-India partnership
By Neelapu Shanti The Afghanistan-India relation is unique and dynamic prefacing shared vision of economic, social and cultural periphery. The proximity is accounted with active engagement and...
View ArticleNo more just a contender
By Desh Gaurav Sekhri The just-concluded Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta and Palembang in Indonesia have been relatively successful for India. It has got its highest medal haul ever at 69, and tied for its...
View ArticleChanting techniques
By Yugal K Mishra The four main groups of Vedic texts are the Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva Vedas. Each of them has different sakhas, recensions, of which many are extinct. In Patanjali’s time, there...
View ArticleOn Global Change
By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA Sometime in the middle of the second decade of the 21 century, world politics changed dramatically. The period from the early 1970s through the mid-2000s witnessed what Samuel...
View ArticleLet H R Khan panel do a thorough job
The real world is full of trade-offs. If you want to take your pound of flesh, you will have to spill blood. The timing and the manner of the trade-off matters. Markets regulator Sebi cannot...
View ArticleSpace, up in the Airbnb
By Kala S Sridhar & V Sridhar New York mayor Bill de Blasio reminded the residents of Big Apple of this old Star Trek dictum when he signed into law a Bill that will force...
View ArticleEase GST costs for small businesses
The goods and services tax (GST) rate has been lowered on many products from 28%, but the operating costs for small businesses are still onerous. This must change. SMEs that supply products such as...
View ArticleCash-free Sweden
By Jonas Hedman When we look at cash in circulation compared to gross national product, we are below 1% in Sweden. In the US, it’s around 5-7%. In the UK, it’s around 3%. Countries in...
View ArticleActing Right
By S Radhakrishnan We can best serve our country by removing fundamental defects that have prevented us from gaining the objective of a free and united India. Now that Indiais divided, it is our duty...
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