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Financing agriculture: Need for clear...
Agriculture has all the pre-requisites to have the market-mechanism arrive at a pareto-optimal...
UP's anti-people law on population
The draft bill by the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce what is commonly referred to as the two-...
A lot else died with Father Stan Swamy
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the...
Survey finds unity and harmony of religions...
The latest survey indicates that such conviction is ingrained among Indians, and it is for us to...
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Politics
UP's anti-people law on population
The draft bill by the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce what is commonly referred to as the two-...
A lot else died with Father Stan Swamy
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the...
Lakshadweep and the trouble in paradise
A little known member of the Bharatiya Janata Party has set off a political storm in Lakshadweep,...
The glass ceiling is unshattered in Kerala
K.K.Shailaja, known as “Shailaja Teacher” in Kerala, and hailed as the “Corona virus slayer”...
Economy
Financing agriculture: Need for clear...
Agriculture has all the pre-requisites to have the market-mechanism arrive at a pareto-optimal...
How not to write off a loan
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the...
Sustaining the nascent economic recovery
The rate of real economic growth measured in terms of GDP at constant market prices (base year 2012...
Tax system must become less iniquitous
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha...
Health
Every pregnant woman must be vaccinated
During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women...
Re-arming the global health order
The Covid -19 pandemic has mercilessly pummelled the health system globally. The human toll exceeds...
A new pandemic of 'positivity'
There is a steady echo of voices asking for the Prime Minister to step aside, many demanding that...
Patent waiver on covid vaccines is welcome
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual...
Recent Columns
How not to write off a loan
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the...
Sustaining the nascent economic recovery
The rate of real economic growth measured in terms of GDP at constant market prices (base year 2012...
Tax system must become less iniquitous
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha...
The Charter for Nature
The Charter for Nature talks about assessments and exhaustive examination, which the government has...
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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