The build-up in foreign exchange reserves to US$ 610.01 billion as on July 02, 2021, an increase of around US$ 33 billion over March 2021 and US $96.8 billion on a y-o-y…
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By Vidyadhar Date |
Google translation can create unintended humour, worse when it is in an obituary.
By Vidyadhar Date |
Perhaps we underrate or are unaware of some achievements in Indian languages and regional cultures. There is a long tradition of doing Shakespeare plays in Marathi.…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s young demography has been considered to be its structural advantage. Half the population is below the age of 27. Of course, there are poorer African countries…
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Agriculture has all the pre-requisites to have the market-mechanism arrive at a pareto-optimal outcome, unlike in the case of public health or primary education.
By Vidyadhar Date |
Science cannot provide instant solutions. People expect a theory that explains everything with certainty.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The draft bill by the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce what is commonly referred to as the two-child norm has caused much political noise. In sum, ‘The Uttar Pradesh…
By Vidyadhar Date |
Baburao Shelar was a corporator for 17 years in working class Sewree in Mumbai from 1968 to 1985.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the tyranny unleashed on him by a hate-filled power machinery that thinks…
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The dictionary meaning of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar) is “reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others.” Accordingly, there are two ways of…
By Ajit Ranade |
The latest survey indicates that such conviction is ingrained among Indians, and it is for us to reinforce, and harness that conviction, and not magnify or exploit the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the order of nine lakh crore rupees. The precise gross NPAs figure…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The rate of real economic growth measured in terms of GDP at constant market prices (base year 2012) has revived in 2020-21 and entered into a positive territory in Q3 (…
By Ajit Ranade |
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha Rao was sworn in as India’s ninth Prime Minister, and his tenure…