There is something very 19th-century, Bombay mill-owner type of flavour to the comment by N R Narayana Murthy that the youth must work 70-hour weeks to help increase…
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A study of older (45+) Indian adults recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine finds that while several drivers of cardiovascular disease are present amongst
By Ajit Ranade |
The three most important macroeconomic variables for a country are the foreign ex-change rate, the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. The first is accurately and…
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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…