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A stress test for democracy
The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the...
The usual cocktail: greed, panic and...
In November 2008, just weeks after the Lehman crash, at a high-profile briefing by top academics at...
The “real” reforms no one is talking about
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old...
Shield against ruinous healthcare costs
It is true that we cannot ignore the more commen ailments which, too, cause death and devastation...
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Politics
A stress test for democracy
The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the...
What is wrong with the Gujarat model of...
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month...
Best to leave bollywood alone
Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, two of Hindi filmdom’s biggest stars, have come out to make...
The bulldozing of India
The stinging remarks by Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court in a case of the bulldozing...
Economy
The usual cocktail: greed, panic and...
In November 2008, just weeks after the Lehman crash, at a high-profile briefing by top academics at...
The “real” reforms no one is talking about
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old...
Defining what it means to be a developed...
India’s relative fast pace of economic growth raises the question: when will India be-come a...
True value of labour
When the drumbeats of a $5 trillion and $10 trillion economy don't stir me, business leaders ask me...
Health
Shield against ruinous healthcare costs
It is true that we cannot ignore the more commen ailments which, too, cause death and devastation...
Covid and the risks of playing with nature
The Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray has now...
Chiranjeevi Yojana: Doctors against Right to...
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into...
The long road to right to health
September 23 in many senses is a landmark day in the context of India’s long and winding road to...
Recent Columns
The road to empathy in our education
The Chief Justice of India, Dr. Justice D Y Chandrachud, has made some very timely and significant...
Lessons for India from soldier and farmer...
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union Address, which is the...
Budget paves the way to resolve MSME dues
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which consists of members from across all...
Leave States to fix their own fisc
India works with the principles of cooperative federalism under which expenditure made and taxes...
Select Diaries
Painted hymns, church frescoes and religious...
A valuable treasure trove of art work, murals, frescoes and paintings lie in a 16th century...
Witness Mumbai’s old glory here
It was a pleasant surprise this morning to see the space under the flyover used so imaginatively. I...
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,...
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