During my morning walk at Pali Hill, saw a board outside the site of Dilip Kumar’s demolished bungalow covered by a compound of tin sheets.
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The Cooperative Credit Structure (CCS) in India is broadly made up of urban cooperatives and rural cooperatives. The urban CCS is mostly the Urban Cooperative Bank (UCB…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and accepted that the actual death toll is many times…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
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…
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…