Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract, there could be a remedy in the form of a punishment…
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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
There was a unanimous decision to hold the policy repo rate constant primarily because the headline inflation measured in terms of Consumer Price Index Combined (CPC-C)…
By Martin Macwan |
Hathras is the first case of Independent India where the State has deprived the parents of sexual abuse victim to respectfully cremate their child by forcefully burning…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
An 18-year-old girl had been brought out of one of the best-known public hospitals in the country and left at the curb. She had been discharged from the hospital because…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, which concluded its third meeting for 2020-21 on Friday, kept the policy rate unchanged at 4 per cent and also announced its…
By Ajit Ranade |
This is the first time in India’s history that we are experiencing a steep recession without any adverse shock of drought or a failed monsoon affecting agriculture.
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Three farm bills passed by the parliament last week have become a bone of contention. At one level, they are a step in the right direction but have failed to get the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The overwhelming feeling that comes to mind about the manner in which the Uttar Pradesh administration has handled the alleged rape of a dalit girl by her upper caste…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to building as also to breaking – be it a policy, an institution or for that matter a nation. One is the top down approach…
Covid has altered everybody's life, but the closure of schools has meant the impact on the very young could be long-lasting and difficult to predict. Direct effects…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The contempt of court case against the Tamil actor Suriya (which was fortunately and wisely dropped by the Madras High Court) and the case of contempt against Prashant…
By T Jacob John |
Across India, about 1.5 million schools were shut as part of the nation-wide lockdown, affecting 247 million children, from midnight of 24 March 2020. During the initial…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economy shrank by nearly one fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the harsh lockdown initiated in March.
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The Covid-19 novel coronavirus continues to spread, by now afflicting all continents except the Antarctic. At the time of writing (September first week), global…
By Arun Maira |
Two Indian initiatives have found places amongst the ten best global initiatives selected by the Rockefeller Foundation for its Food Systems Vision Prize 2050. One is…