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Will govt business recharge private banks?
The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the...
Moral hazards of RBI's balance sheet...
The monetary policy announced on April 07, 2021 has been along expected lines, on the surface. But...
Global problems need local solutions
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the...
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...
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Politics
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...
Farmers’ protest holds key to India’s future
The farmers agitation has grown and sustained over a long enough period of time to become the most...
Economy
Will govt business recharge private banks?
The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the...
Moral hazards of RBI's balance sheet...
The monetary policy announced on April 07, 2021 has been along expected lines, on the surface. But...
Global problems need local solutions
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the...
MPC: Steady opening for 2nd innings
In its first meeting of 2021-22, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept...
Health
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...
Neutralising "too much democracy"
The BJP has distanced itself from the remarks by the CEO of Niti Aayog Amitabh Kant that India has...
Why vaccine is only a part solution
The BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine has been approved for use in the UK. This triggered President Putin to...
Recent Columns
MPC: Steady opening for 2nd innings
In its first meeting of 2021-22, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept...
Bringing the minimum wage movement to India
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An...
Why not let the modern university die?
I have almost come to believe in the myth of corporate liberalism. And then comes Prof. Mehta’s...
The thing about tea
The brew has significance in this election as among the five poll-bound States, four are the top...
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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