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Shiv Khera, whose website tells us that he has put "millions of people on the path of growth and fulfillment", emphatically says in this video that he is not.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The findings of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023 in respect of India should not be allowed to be side-tracked by the remarks of the Union Minister of Women and Child…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Economics Nobel prize this year went to a single individual, Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University. She is the third woman in history to have won this award…
By Vappala Balachandran |
How does terrorism originate? For the last 15 years or so I have been giving yearly lectures on terrorism to students of journalism at a reputed training institute in…
By Vappala Balachandran |
How does terrorism originate? For the last 15 years or so I have been giving yearly lectures on terrorism to students of journalism at a reputed training institute in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Big changes sometimes come without big headlines. One of these happened last month in California, the largest and the most productive States in the US which comprises…
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The comprehensive caste survey (CCS) released by the Bihar government on Gandhi Jayanti has caused a flutter, reviving memories of the early 1990s which were…
By Ajit Ranade |
It is a truism that reduction in poverty needs higher economic growth, which can cre-ate jobs and incomes. India’s per-capita income at 3000 dollars, or about 2.4 lakh…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
What is clear is that till such time the headline inflation in India is on a consistently downward trajectory from its present level, policy rate in India will stay at 6…
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Health services have traditionally been understood to be about patients reaching a clinic, hospital or a defined place of diagnosis, treatment, or care. However, unless…
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In the spring of 1915 a group from the Phoenix experiment in South Africa, where Gandhiji had founded in 1904 an Ashram type of community called the “Tolstoy Farm”, were…
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In the spring of 1915 a group from the Phoenix experiment in South Africa, where Gandhiji had founded in 1904 an Ashram type of community called the “Tolstoy Farm”, were…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The abusive and communal epithets hurled by the BJP MP from South Delhi Ramesh Bidhuri against the BSP MP Kunwar Danish Ali represent a race to the bottom, a steep if…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s fiscal situation is more dire than is acknowledged. If we compare the debt service ratio, i.e. how much of the government’s revenue goes simply to pay interest…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Success, and the accolades that come with it, can hide many problems. Something similar may be happening in the space of population planning and management. In…