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By Ajit Ranade |
Is the right to food a statutory right, a fundamental right or a human right? India is a signatory to the 1966…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If the ‘Bharat-jodo’ yatra continues to earn the goodwill it has thus far, that leader down the line and over the years…
By Ajit Ranade |
Three years ago, India abruptly walked out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is true that Gandhi emphasised duties over rights but he also showed us how it was a duty to stand up when rights…
By Ajit Ranade |
Measured in dollar terms, the size of the Indian economy surpassed that of the Unit-ed Kingdom, as per data from the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is not a secret that the pharmaceutical sector, for all that it has achieved in India, has created rather than…
By Ajit Ranade |
There was an extraordinary heat wave in March in northern India which caused wheat yields to go down. The heat wave in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Seventy-five years of Independence marks a significant milestone in the history of a nation rising. We can quibble over…
By Ajit Ranade |
India has been managing the world’s largest and longest running free food program since April 2020. This is called the…
By Lekha Rattanani |
It is now more than a month since the Maharashtra government led by Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena was ousted after…
By Ajit Ranade |
The third week of July marks two anniversaries of events in 1969, one national and the other international. The latter…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana and the Supreme Court have offered a wake-up call to the nation on the…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the past eight months, foreign portfolio investors have moved out nearly 40 billion dollars out of India, by selling…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 in Nara City reminds me of my first lessons in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Uddhav Thackeray will have to take his case to the people very fast, and take on the role of Maharashtra’s wounded…