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Blind optimism on GDP growth
The severity, penetration and pervasiveness of the second wave of the pandemic opens new questions...
Getting to the root of the police-politician...
The Maharashtra police-politician squabble is now being legally processed by the CBI under orders...
The Centre must pick up the tab for...
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including...
Global problems need local solutions
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the...
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Politics
Getting to the root of the police-politician...
The Maharashtra police-politician squabble is now being legally processed by the CBI under orders...
The thing about tea
The brew has significance in this election as among the five poll-bound States, four are the top...
When the police plant bombs
In Mumbai, there is nothing honest in the air as yet with allegations, wild and otherwise, flying...
The right to solidarity
Subhash Kapoor’s new film, Madam Chief Minister (2021) has been in the limelight for all the wrong...
Economy
Blind optimism on GDP growth
The severity, penetration and pervasiveness of the second wave of the pandemic opens new questions...
Global problems need local solutions
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the...
RBI embarks on quantitative easing
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide...
Will govt business recharge private banks?
The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the...
Health
The Centre must pick up the tab for...
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including...
The disease that kills us
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to...
The healthcare crisis we don’t see
This week, April 7, is World Health Day, and we can expect discussions to be largely focused on the...
Post-Covid, a health disaster waiting to...
Health and education are the two legs on which any policy on sustainable growth and development...
Recent Columns
Global problems need local solutions
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the...
The disease that kills us
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to...
The disease that kills us
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to...
RBI embarks on quantitative easing
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide...
Recent Diaries
Vikram Lall : An uncompromising aesthete
Vikram Lall made his life and livelihood as an architect, the Buddha Smriti Park in his hometown...
‘Quality and cost must be under government...
CMC is a national resource. All of India’s neurosurgeons were grandchildren, great-grandchildren,...
Epidemiologist throws light on healthcare...
I thought rich epidemic management is possible, in part by the Indian Constitutional division of...
A legacy transcending boundaries
Very few people outside India’s North-East are familiar with the achievements and legacy of one of...
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