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By Ajit Ranade  | 
During the recent Karnataka elections, one divisive issue was about the milk brand Amul from Gujarat versus local brand…
By Jagdish Rattanani  | 
Well planned and thought through policy that does not get into the trap of event creation or headline grabbing also…
By Martin Macwan   | 
Manipur has been in a state of conflict for quite some time. It is not surprising that the situation often escalates…
By Ajit Ranade  | 
The Congress Party’s victory in the elections to the State Assembly of Karnataka is the highest it has been in the past…
By Jagdish Rattanani  | 
Without delving into what the Karnataka elections hold and which way the wind will blow, it can be safely said that…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik  | 
As F.Y. 2022-23 ended, the RBI issued a press release which said that “in consultation with the (Central) Government,…
By Lekha Rattanani  | 
Last month a film released in theatres here recounting an immigrant Indian mother’s struggle to win back the custody of…
By Jagdish Rattanani  | 
A lot has been written on the normalisation of what have come to be called “encounter killings”, the extrajudicial…
By Ajit Ranade  | 
Last week we celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, an occasion to dis-cover and rediscover a giant of…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik  | 
According to the RBI, during Q3: 2021-22, the natural rate of interest was worked out to range of 0.8% and 1% as…
By Jagdish Rattanani  | 
It was not very long ago that spam messages and forwards used to be not about the veracity of Prime Minister Narendra…
By Himadri Bhattacharya  | 
No change in the current stance of the policy aimed at ‘withdrawal of accommodation’ was also announced, albeit with…
By Jagdish Rattanani  | 
The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the lawyer Kapil Sibal)…
By Ajit Ranade  | 
In November 2008, just weeks after the Lehman crash, at a high-profile briefing by top academics at the London School…
By GN Bajpai  | 
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered…
