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Celebrating India’s Constitution
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality...
Twitter tantrums- Free enterprise, unfree...
In the world of business, one of the less discussed issues is the sharp contrast between the ideals...
Implications of the EWS quota verdict
Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment...
India must not copy the China model
Horrific stories are emerging from the factories complex in Zhengzhou in central China owned and...
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Politics
Celebrating India’s Constitution
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality...
Implications of the EWS quota verdict
Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment...
In India, caste matters
The successful agitation of Gujarat, the ‘Patidar Andolan’, demanding reservation brought us to the...
A steady hand as Congress braces for 2024
The election of Mallikarjun Kharge as the first non-Gandhi family President of the Congress in the...
Economy
Fundamental Right to Food and its cost...
Is the right to food a statutory right, a fundamental right or a human right? India is a signatory...
MPC’s forecasts are a bit cryptic
It would be a good idea for the central bank to revisit the issue of construction and publication...
India needs to display less inhibition about...
Three years ago, India abruptly walked out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP...
A path to a “developed” India
Narendra Modi has been commanding his entourage well. But the commands must turn into inspiration...
Health
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...
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...
Recent Columns
A steady hand as Congress braces for 2024
The election of Mallikarjun Kharge as the first non-Gandhi family President of the Congress in the...
We need true social enterprises
Concepts of “social enterprises” are gaining some traction. Some are basically “more of the same”,...
What are the lessons from the UK policy...
The United Kingdom has had four Prime Ministers in the last six years. Their most recent...
Prejudice, population and misguided policy
Well, the world has moved, and so has India. But we may be creating a new “us” and “them” problem...
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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