Opinion

Sandeep Mishra The Atmanirbhar Bharat Scheme (ABS), the second tranche of COVID-19 relief rolled out by the PM promises a stimulus of Rs 20 trillion to prop up the economy through channelization of credit to the affected sectors and also by way of reforms pertaining...

Sudha Devi Nayak History scripts human civilisation and we hear her voices long after they are out of hearing. They rise from the tombs of time to inspire us with hope and courage and also to cast a chill at the atrocious and diabolical machinations...

Ian Buruma Instead of using all the powers of the US federal government to limit the ravages of COVID-19, President Donald Trump’s administration is wasting precious time and energy blaming China for the spread of the virus. Pundits speak of a new cold war. But...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala It must be noted that the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) were in trouble even before the Corona Pandemic. The share of MSMEs in the non-farm credit extended by the banks declined from 5.58 per cent in March 2019 to 5.37 per...

In this continuing series, prominent individuals take a look the Covid-linked changes in our life and times.  —EDITOR It’s 8 o’clock on in the morning in the middle of May, the hot summer month. Mrs. Behera, a high school Mathematics teacher in a public school...

Jayati Ghosh Among the many inequalities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most striking is the dramatic divergence in the government’s fiscal responses. Economic activity has collapsed worldwide as a result of the lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus. But while some developed...

This is a continuing series in which prominent individuals comment on the Covid-19 impact on life in various sectors.       —EDITOR Government notifications on management of COVID-19 lockdown do not concern functioning of courts. In the order of priority, it is not clear where courts...

Sami Mahroum Nobel laureate Amartya Sen defined human agency as “what a person is free to do and achieve in pursuit of whatever goals or values he or she regards as important.” At a time of mounting fears over artificial intelligence and job-destroying robotics, the...

Prominent individuals take a look at the post-Covid scenario in this continuing series.     —EDITOR We all have been living in the deep shadow of Covid-19 for the past few weeks and it’s going to prolong a bit more because the disease is seeing no...

Ajit Ranade What if you lose your job, but not health insurance? What if you lose your monthly income but get paid the unemployment insurance? What if your livelihood collapses, but there is a social security safety net. Does all this sound utopian? This indeed...