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A path to a “developed” India
Narendra Modi has been commanding his entourage well. But the commands must turn into inspiration...
Decolonising the Indian mind
It is true that Gandhi emphasised duties over rights but he also showed us how it was a duty to...
How is the world’s 5th largest economy doing?
Measured in dollar terms, the size of the Indian economy surpassed that of the Unit-ed Kingdom, as...
A tough prescription for pharma
It is not a secret that the pharmaceutical sector, for all that it has achieved in India, has...
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Politics
Looking beyond tokenism in a President
It is over a month since Droupadi Murmu became the 15th President of India. She is the second...
India@75: Fighting nepotism, corruption
Seventy-five years of Independence marks a significant milestone in the history of a nation rising...
A Governor out of line
The Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s extremely divisive recent...
In Mah, pressures of patchwork politics
It is now more than a month since the Maharashtra government led by Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv...
Economy
A path to a “developed” India
Narendra Modi has been commanding his entourage well. But the commands must turn into inspiration...
How is the world’s 5th largest economy doing?
Measured in dollar terms, the size of the Indian economy surpassed that of the Unit-ed Kingdom, as...
A tough prescription for pharma
It is not a secret that the pharmaceutical sector, for all that it has achieved in India, has...
No ignominy in importing wheat
There was an extraordinary heat wave in March in northern India which caused wheat yields to go...
Health
Two WHO tales on Indian health systems
India’s ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) as well as the Indian media appear to be...
Why the COVID-19 numbers matter
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of deaths in India directly or...
Private hospitals thrive in a failed system
In an unrelated 2018 investigation, the NPPA reported “unethical profiteering in a failed market...
How to contain India’s TB pandemic
India ushers in World Tuberculosis day in 2022 on 24 March with mixed feelings. As the COVID...
Recent Columns
A global storm of stagflation
The global economy is suffering from twin shocks of a massive slowdown in economic growth...
The climate crisis is challenging governance
In today’s uncomfortable situation, tough calls will have to be made for the cause of the...
Ensuring basic rights is not freebie culture
India has been managing the world’s largest and longest running free food program since April 2020...
A Governor out of line
The Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s extremely divisive recent...
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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