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Aakar Patel We have entered the third year of this government and in the months to come the discussion will turn to the election of 2024. Some of the recent political activity around Uttar Pradesh is being seen in this light. In India what the...

The instances of bureaucrats getting caught in the middle of political battles is a growing and dynamic list. Those in the know say that after the Centre recently amended the empanelment policy for IAS officers, young officers fear that their careers will be jeopardized if...

Dani Rodrik On June 5, the world’s leading economies announced an agreement that will bolster their ability to raise taxes on global corporations. The agreement still needs formal approval from a wider set of countries, and there remain many details to be worked out for...

When Britain’s largest bakery, Greggs brought, a vegan sausage roll into the market, it was attacked by a senior reporter as ‘Stalinist’, and the idea of having a vegan roll as ‘nauseating’. In India we never have this problem, because almost everyone at the top...

India, like the rest of the world, is in the grip of a once in a century pandemic snuffing out tens of thousands of lives, inflicting excruciating pain and trauma on millions and ruining countless families. It has been passing through a colossal tragedy with...

As US President Joe Biden reinvigorates his tariff war with India and gets ready for his European trip later this week, the message that is emanating from Washington is that the President wants to reposition his country in the world stage after having busied himself...

When the head of India’s coronavirus taskforce, Dr VK Paul, said June 5 that the country has overtaken the United States in terms of the number of people who have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, he was rather too economical on truth....

The National Democratic Alliance government marked its seventh anniversary at the end of last month. Celebrations were muted because of the sickness and death that the pandemic has brought to us. But the prime minister did put out a document on the achievements of the...

In the context of the second Covid surge, a group of 116 former civil servants has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the government of not addressing the crucial issues at stake. What makes this “open letter” significant is that the signatories include former...

Mark Lowcock & Raj Shah When the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 38 million, would experience a peak of up to 520,000 cases...