Opinion

Saeed Naqvi It reflects on the civilisational power of Lord Rama in this ancient land that Independent India’s five Prime Ministers involved themselves in the affairs of his birthplace at Ayodhya. Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Narendra Modi and, tangentially, VP Singh in between....

Dr DK Giri Islamabad has launched a fresh attack on India. Following the new map released officially by Nepal, Pakistan seeks to engage India in a cartographic war. The government supporters say the new is a fresh rendition of the old one issued in 2017....

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The two areas of the Union government expenditures on healthcare are curative and preventive. According to the National Health Accounts Estimates for India, 2018, the government spent `9,134 crore in 2015-16 on the 31 lakh government employees; or about `7,000 per person if...

Edmund S. Phelps The robots are no longer coming; they are here. The Covid-19 pandemic is hastening the spread of artificial intelligence (AI), but few have fully considered the short and long run consequences. In thinking about AI, it is natural to start from the...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra With the number of Covid-19 victims rising exponentially, it is vital to assess where India stands in terms of medical capacity to provide the necessary healthcare. India’s poor health infrastructure belies any hope, and the health sector is in the doldrums. The...

Kaushik Basu As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, our understanding of it is improving. Through a combination of epidemiology and physics – including knowledge of the virus's character and how aerosols float in the air – we are learning more about how the microbe infects...

Dr S. Saraswathi Prime Minister Modi has said that the new National Education Policy (NEP) will mark a shift from “the burden of school bag” to “experiential learning” with focus on “job creators” instead of “job seekers.” The NEP seems to usher in a mini...

Jagdish Rattanani A 22-kilogram silver brick marks the symbolic laying of the foundations of what is promised to be a grand temple to Lord Ram at the spot in Ayodhya where the disputed Babri Masjid once stood. There are those who see this as the...

Melvin Durai If I were a snake, there is no other state I’d want to be in other than Odisha. About one-third of the land in Odisha has been classified as forest land, so I’d have plenty of space to slither around without running into...

Ashok Mahapatra Economy is defined as the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country or region is mobilised and used. In its broader term, this could also be viewed as a social domain that emphasises the practices, discourses and material...