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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Victor Galaz Silicon Valley leaders tell us that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring untold benefits. They say it is already underway and accelerating, powered by artificial intelligence and other technologies, and warn that we will be left eating dust if we don’t get with...

Some months ago Anoushka, Abhishek, Sarthak, Garvita and Rishabh wrote to me from Thapar Institute and Technology, Patiala College in Patiala, requesting guidance with an animal welfare group they had started on the campus called Puppers Helpers Tiet. This gave me a new idea –...