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Poster Boys

The reaction of the Delhi Police, which is under the direct control and supervision of the Union government, to a dozen or so young men sticking posters on some walls in the national capital can only be termed as hilariously idiotic. The posters being stuck...

Aakar Patel

Leading Sans Grip

He is a famous name in war but Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery does not have many battlefield victories to his name. In fact, his most famous engagement, called Operation Market Garden (after which the Hollywood movie ‘A Bridge Too Far’ was made) was a disaster....

Dilip Cherian

Covid deals a body blow to the steel frame

Is India’s fabled ‘steel frame’ only creaking or is it screaming? The coronavirus pandemic surge has devastated big cities including the Capital and brought the healthcare system to its knees. India has now been recording the highest number of new coronavirus cases in the world...

Beware Economists

Dani Rodrik Neoliberalism is dead. Or perhaps it remains very much alive. Pundits have been calling it both ways these days. But either way, it is hard to deny that something new is afoot in the world of economic policy. US President Joe Biden has...

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Sustainable Finance

Fabio Panetta The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest decrease in global economic activity on record. But the drop in carbon dioxide emissions has been only temporary. Although global CO2 emissions fell by 6.4 per cent overall in 2020, they had already begun to increase...

Virus Sans Frontier

At a time when India is fast turning into a crematorium due to the fury of the second wave of COVID-19, a ruthless and cynical private business has started within the country and outside over the production and supply of vaccines to tackle the pandemic....

Hey Ram!

The Centre seems to have lost its direction and priorities in battling the COVID-19 pandemic forcing millions to run helplessly from pillar to post to get oxygen, vaccines, immunity boosting drugs and beds in hospitals. In the process, thousands are dying daily and lakhs are...

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Bone-Apart

History is a tricky entity. It is essentially a record of past events, as observed by an individual or a group of individuals with the abilities to write in whichever script,  that a later generation may desire to know to understand the driving forces that...

Aakar Patel

Come Clean

The world is worried about its Vishwaguru as our mismanagement of corona has become a global story. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent research centre in the United States, has estimated that by September, which means four months, another 10 lakh Indians...

Dilip Cherian

Tripura DM under scanner amid protests

While the administration has been widely rebuked for complacency in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, a district magistrate in Tripura is in trouble for being overly enthusiastic in enforcing night curfew rules during a marriage in the state capital Agartala. A video that recorded...

 

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