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Chander Gupta

The best President that India never had

By Chander Gupta It was on 18 April that I attended a book discussion on the authorised biography of Dr Karan Singh, penned by Harbans Singh, at Chandigarh. The book discussion was held under the aegis of Chandigarh Literary Society. The biography is titled ‘A...

THE INDIAN POLITICAL LEAGUE

By Rajdeep Sardesai The images tell a story that would once have embarrassed Indian politicians. In Delhi, Trinamool Congress MPs preparing to switch sides appeared perfectly comfortable being seen in the company of senior BJP leaders and Union minister Bhupender Yadav. There was little attempt...

Zaki Laïdi

Myth of Global Chaos

By Zaki Laïdi The shambolic diplomacy between US President Donald Trump’s administration and Iran provides further evidence that world affairs have become unintelligible. But take a step back and you will see that all of today’s major conflicts are of a piece, and that despite...

Dhurjati Mukherjee

The need to go beyond GDP

The United Nation’s re cent proposal to move beyond GDP is a significant step that economic or thodoxy has governed policy making since World War II. In its significant report titled ‘A Compass for Progress for People and Planet’, the UN has evaluated that the...

MUSICAL CHAIRS POLITICS

The two mainstream ruling parties in Britain—Labour and the Tories—are using the children’s party game of ‘Musical Chairs’ as a political strategy to abandon democratic accountability, even as the quality of life and dignity of citizenship shrinks across the country, as food banks, poverty, unemployment...

Daron Acemoglu

Soccer & Extremists

When the German soccer player Deniz Undav scored two late-game goals to clinch a 2-1 victory for his team over the Ivory Coast, you would have been hard-pressed to find many German fans who did not see him as a national hero. Few cared that...

Melvin Durai

For brain health, do a little gardening

Melvin Durai   My wife and I have a flower garden in front of our house and a vegetable garden at the back. I do the digging and planting in the garden, and my wife contributes by asking important questions, such as “Why are there...

WAR & FOOD SECURITY

Máximo Torero The recent memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran promises to restore the flow of oil, natural gas, sulfur, and fertilizers through the Strait of Hormuz, easing pressure on agricultural markets and reducing the risk of a deeper global food security...

Carlos Alvarado-Quesada & Mokgweetsi Masisi

A new framework for climate displacement

Carlos Alvarado-Quesada & Mokgweetsi Masisi   Last year, at the inaugural Berlin Climate Mobility Forum, leaders from vulnerable countries across Africa, South Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, and beyond highlighted an urgent yet often overlooked reality: climate change threatens not only the planet, but also...

Ajit Ranade

INDIA’S JOBS CRISIS

Ajit Ranade Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran has done a great service by saying something many parents, students and policymakers do not want to hear: that the old automatic premium attached to software degrees and MBAs is vanishing. The globalisation-era formula was simple. Get...

 

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