Opinion

Sabyasachee Dash & Bejon Misra The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was dealt a blow when India made a last-minute, unsurprising withdrawal from the seven-year-old negotiations during a series of weekend meetings of Asian governments in Bangkok. India’s action is seen as an inward turn...

Dhanada K Mishra China is one of the oldest civilisations of the world, with beautiful traditions such as that of Confucius and Lao-Tse. China also became the cradle of Buddhism, which came from India and spread onward to all of Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia....

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra On the evening of November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of currency of denominations 500 and 1,000 to combat black money, corruption, fake currency and terror financing. Three years later, none of these goals seem to have been...

Piyush Ranjan Rout Innovation is key for cities to grow prosperous. Despite the challenge involved in achieving this, cities are catalysts for change. When cities grow, so do challenges such as achieving social equality and cultural diversity, alleviating poverty, and protecting the environment. Just as...

Sarit Kumar Rout Universal health coverage (UHC) simply means every citizen, irrespective of income, caste and social status, should have access to basic minimum health services without facing financial hardship. With more resources available, the state should progressively increase coverage and services. UHC has three...

Prateek Pattanaik We have all heard that in the month of Kartika, one must not eat non-vegetarian food. And in the last five days, called the ‘Panchuka’, not under any circumstance. It is said that even the crane abandons fish for these five days. This...

Shivaji Mohinta It is said that when one makes a strong impact on the lives of the common people, one finds oneself in the annals of history. Often that happens when one solves some deeper unstated needs that benefit a large cross-section of the population....

P Gargi Rao Declining growth rates, a stagnating automobile industry, and mounting non-performing assets in banks leading to loss in consumer confidence have all caught the eyes of economists, analysts and the media in India. ‘Recession cycle’ and ‘growth slowdown’ are among phrases that have...

Sudha Devi Nayak The Booker season had a nail-biting finish that gave followers of literature moments of tension, trepidation and speculation. The Booker Committee had the onerous task of reading 150 books and to whittle the list down to a dozen books in the long...

Priya Ranjan Sahu In the run-up to the assembly elections in Maharashtra, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party started a clamour for posthumous conferment of Bharat Ratna on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who, though a controversial personality in India’s freedom movement, has a large number of admirers...