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This week we feature another distinguished IAS officer (who was recognised by SpeakIn – Asia’s largest network of experts and thought leaders, for creating impact and inspiration beyond the call of duty. COVID was a testing time and true mettle shown through yet again. Iqbal...

Rosemarie Muganda The extraordinary global effort to develop safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in record time highlights the power of vaccines to bring us closer to our loved ones and to a more prosperous, equitable world in which everyone has the chance to achieve their...

Dani Rodrik Early in his career, the economist Joseph E. Stiglitz had an extended stay in Kenya, where he was struck by various oddities in how the local economy operated. Sharecropping was one such anomaly. If farmers were required to surrender half of their harvest...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released August 9 sounds the gravest warning bell ever against the disaster that is waiting in store for the whole world in the coming few decades. The fight against global warming and consequential changes on planet earth...

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana hit the bull’s eye August 8 when he came down heavily on the incidence of custodial torture and other atrocities committed regularly in police stations across the country. He termed the barbarity as a “threat to human rights and...

As the Tokyo Olympics 2020 came to an end August 8, it has shown the summits of glory that sports can lift the participants to and also the low some of those watching the games or controlling them can stoop to. The latter was clearly...

The Modi government came into this second term with a mandate for change. The NDA government won more seats, more votes in 2019 than it did in 2014 and its performance was endorsed by the electorate to the extent that it can be in a...

During the Covid pandemic, babus have been important players playing a critical role in framing and implementing the government’s response. Some babus, however, have managed to stand out from among the crowd. SpeakIn, Asia’s largest network of experts and thought leaders, recently recognised 10 distinguished...

Fawaz A Gerges What are we to make of the reshuffling of relations and shifting alliances in the Middle East? Diplomacy has gained momentum among bitter foes; cracks have appeared among close friends. Regional powers like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, and Egypt are recalibrating their...

Daniel K. Gardner China is stuck between a fossil fuel-dependent past and a future powered by renewable energy. The country today generates 53 per cent of the world’s coal-fired power. At the same time, it is the world’s leading manufacturer of, and market for, solar...