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The death of Vandana Mishra, Chairperson of the Kanpur chapter of the women’s wing of Indian Industries Association last week demonstrated one of the ugliest aspects of the feudal mindset of Indians. 50 year old Vandana had recovered from Covid-19 a month and a half...

Till four years ago, the Indian government would use the phrase “fastest growing economy.” The prime minister would repeat the phrase “one bright spot in the global economy” to describe, and used it last at 8 pm November 8, 2016, when he gave us the...

At a time when eking out new tax revenues in a shrinking economy is the only goal, an unwarranted self-goal has a lot of knickers in a twist in North Block. The question that’s hovering over Raisina Hill is why fix something that isn’t broken?...

María Fernanda Espinosa & Danilo Türk Great power competition, the troubling rise of xenophobic nationalism, existential environmental threats and the ongoing Covid-19 onslaught present major global governance challenges. Against this backdrop, world leaders have tasked United Nations Secretary General António Guterres with recommending steps to...

James K. Galbraith In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s “first big test ... lies in what America does...

The government, it appears, is continuing to take a cavalier approach to the colossal pain and loss the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked on the country. Instead of making good for its inept handling since the outbreak early last year, it is still propagating unscientific and...

The Central government’s decision to invite 14 key leaders of Jammu and Kashmir to a meeting with the Prime Minister June 24, over 22 months after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the former state is a reflection of the government’s desperation to...

It is said, since time immemorial, that once you tell a lie, it will invariably come back to you. You then have to take the immense trouble to remember what it was exactly that you had said at a certain point of time in your...

It is not easy to find good news in India and has not been easy for a long time now. A report said that the Indian economy is contracting again in this quarter, between April and June, by more than double digits. This report from...

The Air India divestment has got stuck between a rock and a hard landing! The second wave of the Covid pandemic has now delayed it further. It is beginning to seem that the government may have been a trifle too ambitious and optimistic about closing...