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When the world changes, policy paradigms change, too – or at least they should. Harvard economist Dani Rodrik recently argued that, instead of globalism, financialisation, and consumption – the principles undergirding the declining neoliberal paradigm that has dominated global economic policymaking for the past 40...

A news from Saudi Arabia is highly disappointing. 34-year-old female PhD student of dentistry, Salma al-Shehab has been made to face consequences at the hands of the repressive regime of her country for rooting for women’s rights. Her ‘offence’ is that she re-tweeted tweets by...

The release of 11 convicts serving life imprisonment in the Bilkis Bano gangrape and murder case from the 2002 Gujarat riots is a sad commentary on the criminal justice system that seems to have bent over backwards to please the ruling dispensation. The way the...

Afghanistan no longer hogs the limelight the way it did for months after the Taliban took over the country August 15 last year. This could probably be due to the instability that has gripped the world in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine....

India’s census has been delayed again, indefinitely, making it the first time in 150 years that it will not come on time. Let us understand why. It was supposed to be finished last year, but was not. Since 1881, even during wars in the past,...

Additional Chief Secretary (Information) of Uttar Pradesh Navneet Sehgal has recently written to district/block/tehsil information officers to monitor the news that is published at the micro level. It says that the local news is damaging the Yogi government’s image. Suddenly, a kind of babu at...

In March 1964, the New York Times reported that 38 witnesses saw or heard a brutal, drawn-out, and ultimately fatal attack on a woman called Kitty Genovese, but none did anything to help her, or even summoned the police. The report was later shown to...

Salman Rushdie had once said – Respect for religion has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire and, yes, our fearless disrespect. In a world where religious fanaticism seems to be taking over societies across the...

Celebrating the 75th year of Independence and naming it Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and later the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign has been treated as a historic moment in the present times. We shall refrain from mentioning here the costs involved, that the taxpayer has to...

The four stages of life, according to some of our Hindu texts, are brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha and sanyasa. These are supposed to be broken into segments of 25 years each. The first quarter century is the life of studying and abstinence and poverty. For us,...