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Forgetting our history
Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar unveiled a statue of Rabindranath Tagore at the...
Free food and election promises
Earlier this month, at an election rally, the Prime Minister made an important
announcement. That...
Poor pitch on productivity
There is something very 19th-century, Bombay mill-owner type of flavour to the comment by N R...
Simple steps to reduce belly fat
A study of older (45+) Indian adults recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine finds...
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Justice and the caste census of Bihar
The comprehensive caste survey (CCS) released by the Bihar government on Gandhi Jayanti has caused...
A race to the bottom
The abusive and communal epithets hurled by the BJP MP from South Delhi Ramesh Bidhuri against the...
Xi’s absence at G20
A week before the mega event in New Delhi, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that he would not...
Hurdles in implementing One Nation One...
ONOE is not likely to make a dent, and that is its very purpose. Much debate and discussion are...
Economy
Free food and election promises
Earlier this month, at an election rally, the Prime Minister made an important
announcement. That...
Poor pitch on productivity
There is something very 19th-century, Bombay mill-owner type of flavour to the comment by N R...
What is the true picture of unemployment?
The three most important macroeconomic variables for a country are the foreign ex-change rate, the...
Nobel prize puts spotlight on female labour...
The Economics Nobel prize this year went to a single individual, Professor Claudia Goldin of...
Health
Simple steps to reduce belly fat
A study of older (45+) Indian adults recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine finds...
How to fight hunger in India
The findings of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023 in respect of India should not be allowed to be...
A clinic with a doctor is not primary care
Health services have traditionally been understood to be about patients reaching a clinic, hospital...
A different approach to family planning is...
Success, and the accolades that come with it, can hide many problems. Something similar may be...
Recent Columns
Warning for big business from California
Big changes sometimes come without big headlines. One of these happened last month in California,...
Justice and the caste census of Bihar
The comprehensive caste survey (CCS) released by the Bihar government on Gandhi Jayanti has caused...
Sustaining growth needs higher savings
It is a truism that reduction in poverty needs higher economic growth, which can cre-ate jobs and...
Rates to stay elevated for longer
What is clear is that till such time the headline inflation in India is on a consistently downward...
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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