Of Ideology & Violence
By SUMIT PAUL The Pulwama terrorist attack in Kashmir has the whole country seething with retaliatory anger. This act of extreme violence should cause one to pause and think dispassionately. This is...
View ArticleDon’t Base Quotas on La La Land
By Vani S Kulkarni & Raghav Gaiha There has been a surfeit of critiques of the 10% quota for the economically weaker sections from the ‘general section’ in government jobs and seats in institutions...
View ArticlePolitical Economy
By ALAN BLINDER Economists offer lots of policy advice, most of which politicians routinely reject even thoughit would improve the quality of economic policy — and then the economy suffers. What may be...
View ArticleA Small Vedic Hymn
By DEVENDRA UPPAL The following is a very brief but powerful hymn from the Rig Veda, “Aum Avrikey Ksheshyanta”. Avrikey means the man who is above malice, lie (falsehood) or treachery. In other words,...
View ArticleWelcome restraint on RBI’s reserves
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to transfer an interim dividend of Rs 28,000 crore to the government is neither a dramatic nor a definitive development. It only signals that the Centre needs...
View ArticleEnforce mitigation & reopen copper plant
Everybody’s touchy about environmental degradation — and rightfully so. So when the Tamil Nadu government had ordered the ‘permanent closure’ of Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper smelter plant in Thoothukudi...
View ArticleTime to transmit policy
BY- Jaideep Mishra Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das will be meeting bank heads tomorrow on the transmission of policy rate cut announced in RBI’s latest monetary policy statement....
View ArticleOne Bubble To The Other
By SWAMI CHAITANYA KEERTI Osho was asked why he didn’t write his autobiography. Osho replied: “All autobiographies are ego-biographies. It is not the story of the soul. As long as you do not know what...
View ArticleMake everything in India?
BY-Anuvab Pal Last week, the much-discussed Delhi-Varanasi Vande Bharat Express semi-high-speed ‘Train 18’, which is supposed to eventually replace our Shatabdis and Rajdhanis, broke down on its...
View ArticleSomeone lift the online fog
BY- Chirantan Chatterjee On February 14, even as the news of the grisly terrorist attack in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir, rocked India, the Indo-US Commercial Dialogue and the Indo-US CEO Forum...
View ArticlePersevere & Be Sincere
By SWAMI CHIDANANDA There is another word that keeps coming to my mind and that word is ‘persevere’. Persevere, persevere, persevere and never think that anything is impossible. Never think, “I will...
View ArticleVive la dispute resolution!
BY-Suman Layak Mediation as a preferred process for resolving commercial disputes had alacklustre start last year. In May 2018, GoI amended the Commercial Courts Act through an ordinance and introduced...
View ArticleImpatient India sets a direction
There was a time, till not too long ago, when the Indian economy ran the serious risk of having ‘great potential’ in perpetuity. Over the last half-a-decade or so, the economic reality that ominous tag...
View ArticleSound finance must for KUSUM to flower
The Cabinet has approved a nation-wide scheme that boosts renewable power generation and farm incomes. Given sufficient political backing, it has the potential to improve state power utility finances...
View ArticleTranslate voices to hear them
By Devalina Mookerjee What came earlier, the idea or the word? Answering this seems easy enough. There would be nothing to label before the idea, so the idea must come before the word. Right? But...
View ArticleGood people also suffer
BY- ASHOK VOHRA Why do bad things happen even to good people? Why is there so much suffering in the world? Epicurus, the Greek philosopher, has articulated the dilemma, “If God is willing to prevent...
View ArticleScientific Revolution
By Peter Dear What is knowledge? A bird, we say, knows how to fly. But we would not like to claim that it, therefore, knows aeronautics: there have never been avian Wright brothers. There is...
View ArticleSmartening up old cities
BY- Kala S Sridhar & Sheetal Singh In the run-up to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, farmer loan waivers have become a central issue. With an urban population of only 31% in India according to...
View ArticleInfra Dig into the Green
By Prantik Mitra Developing countries like India face a dual challenge: of high vulnerability to climate risks and of lack of options to mobilise finance for climate resilient actions. A major reason...
View ArticleDesigning Smart Cities
By JONATHAN LAW How does a city transform itself into a smart city? One strategy involves bringing the private sector into the fold, to provide funding, technical knowhow, and innovation that...
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