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I am hopeful that, in my lifetime, I am going to see a disruptive change in the eating and wearing of animal flesh. It is coming fast: the largest slaughter companies, and the largest investors in the world, have invested in laboratory-created real meat (called...

Let the games begin! This used to be the Roman phrase for letting the hungry lions enter the arena to fight slaves. Today, in India, we seem to be going back to the Roman mindset. If we look back into history, India as well as...

The recent utterances of the Madras High Court Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee would have seemed blasphemous a few days earlier while SA Bobde was still Chief Justice of India. Something seems to have changed. Commenting while hearing a plea concerning the Election Commission of India...

There is no doubt now what complacency and sycophancy have done to India. The country is breaking its previous record to count over 3.46 lakh infections a day on April 24, the highest recorded anywhere in the world since the pandemic began. The daily casualties...

Just before the 2014 election, two of India’s most famous economists had a public quarrel. Because they were academics the language was mostly polite but the disagreement was not minor. It was about the Gujarat Model. Jagdish Bhagwati took the side of Narendra Modi, and...

Officials in Haryana close to retirement have been directed not to issue any fresh order pertaining to promotions, transfers and tenders etc. They have been instructed to take prior approval from the state Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan while issuing such orders or face disciplinary action....

Mark Cliffe Many governments, aiming to foster a green and inclusive post-pandemic recovery, have embraced the slogan “Build Back Better.” So far, policymakers have focused on increasing public spending in ways that address climate and environmental challenges while also creating jobs for the disadvantaged. But...

There is a school for 400 children in Solan, Himachal, called Southvale: The World School. The school is run by young MBAs. The owner is Rishabh Chopra and the technical operations are under Snigdha Parihar. It emphasises on education, but more than that, a moral...

It is a matter of concern that the judiciary has to intervene and dictate the executive what it needs to do and when. This is valid even to deal with a colossal public health disaster such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Both the Central as well...

The Centre April 19 decided to allow vaccination against Covid-19 for all above 18 years of age from May 1 on a day when the country reported a new record high of 2.73 lakh infections. In “a liberalised and accelerated Phase 3 strategy of Covid-19...