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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...

The Left in India is on the firing line for its closeness to China at a time when the Sino-Indian relations are under severe strain due to the escalating border conflict in both the eastern and north-western flanks. The participation of three Left leaders, including...

The plot of alleged snooping on journalists, politicians, civil society activists, ministers and government officials with the help of the Pegasus spyware is turning murkier day by day with the government and the ruling BJP putting a spanner in debates and questioning permissibility under parliamentary...