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The miseries afflicting Delhi due to smog caused by, among other factors, stubble burning are no isolated development. One of our era’s great and unpalatable truths is that global food production and the climate emergency are integrally connected. Drought, flood and other extreme weather events...

Demonetisation’s anniversary came and went, without any defence of the masterstroke from the Indian government. Notebandi was the idea of a man with a diploma in mechanical engineering from Latur, a town in Maharashtra. Anil Bokil runs an institution called ArthaKranti (economic revolution) and describes...

In a startling reversal, the Modi sarkar has disavowed its own 360-degree appraisal system for senior civil servants, specifically for those at the level of joint secretary and above. This abrupt change in stance, now asserting that “no such system exists in the Government of...

A colossal humanitarian tragedy is unfolding close to India’s border, but the world is too preoccupied with the Israel-Hamas war and the woes of Palestinians caught in the crossfire to take note of it. Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees are being forced to leave...

World sporting events have, for decades, become an arena for settling political scores. Ideological fights and propaganda wars are what triggered the political grandstanding and it all started in 1930s with the Berlin Olympics. With the cold war becoming a thing of the past, political...

The helplessness of the US administration in reining in Israel wreaking havoc on the not so innocent Palestinians in Gaza in the name of uprooting Hamas is evident. The US has only started making some feeble noise intended as peace overtures by meekly appealing to...

The Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments on electoral bonds and will hopefully give a judgement soon. I say hopefully because it has now been six years since the scheme was introduced through the 2017 Budget. Many readers will not know the background to the...

It’s indeed a rare climbdown for the Modi sarkar. Barely a week after issuing a circular deputing joint secretary, directors and deputy directors as district “rath prabharis” to highlight the government’s achievements, the Centre has backed down after facing a severe backlash from, among others,...

Perform or Perish is a corporate world mantra with the stated objective of increasing productivity to benefit private owners. Superficially, there is nothing wrong with this. However, trouble starts when it is stretched too far and working hours are extended to abnormal limits that tell...

The demise of China’s popular former Premier Li Keqiang October 27, only 10 months after retiring from a decade in office, has triggered conspiracy theories and an inevitable comparison between his model of China’s economic growth and that of current President Xi Jinping. China watchers...