Category: Commentary

Women’s Health in India still facing a recognition challenge

By Moulshri Kanodia According to the "OECD Health Statistics 2014: How Does India Compare" report, the overall health spending accounted…

7 years ago

The future lies in preparing for jobs that don’t exist today

By Sanjiv Kataria It's April and a time to celebrate for millions of young Indians who have just finished their…

7 years ago

The radical, rockstar philosopher and his ‘dangerous’ ideas

By Vikas Datta Philosophers may be called "dangerous" for their ideas, can be flamboyantly idiosyncratic, but are rarely described as…

7 years ago

Make in India will not work — unless there is a strategic plan

By Frank F. Islam Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out an ambitious agenda when he announced his administration's Make in…

7 years ago

Nutrition-based welfare schemes play huge role in social upliftment

By Madhu Pandit Dasa Our pursuit of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is largely dependent on equality in the…

7 years ago

Transparency in apps’ ecosystem must as more Indians go digital

By Faisal Kawoosa The recent screaming headlines about data security and privacy in the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal…

7 years ago

Bengal violence has hurt Mamata’s all-India plans

By Amulya Ganguli The Calcutta High Court's decision to suspend the panchayat poll process in West Bengal is a major…

7 years ago

Aspirational Districts initiative a breath of fresh air

By Alok Kumar, Neil Buddy Shah & Ronald Abraham The NITI Aayog recently launched the first round of ranking of…

7 years ago

Trade war fears and the resilience of emerging markets

By Amit Kapoor The much-dreaded trade war has come dangerously close to fruition after the tit-for-tat exchanges between the United…

7 years ago

Propose STF to monitor unauthorised constructions in Delhi, Centre tells SC

New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday informed by the Central government that it has proposed to…

7 years ago

Clandestine work in a realistic frame: Matt Helm and his exploits

By Vikas Datt What can we expect of spy fiction? Should it be all glamour -- parties, fast cars, women…

7 years ago

Chennai DefExpo: Will it initiate a new dawn for India’s military?

By C. Uday Bhaskar The four-day DefExpo 2018 that opens outside Chennai on April 11 has been innovatively and generously…

7 years ago

Dalit anger: BJP’s hard core is its own enemy

By Amulya Ganguli The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) owes much of its woes to the reluctance of its core constituency…

7 years ago

Can you have your privacy and eat it too?

By Arnav Joshi When Aristotle seminally made a distinction between the polis and the oikos, laying the early foundations of…

7 years ago

Palliative care a silent, slow-evolving revolution in India

By Dr M.R. Rajagopal Recently, I spent an hour with a group of resident doctors and public health graduates. With…

7 years ago

ICC Chief takes easy way out to address sandpaper-gate

By Veturi Srivatsa The dust seems to have settled over the sandpaper-gate or the ball tampering issue that rocked international…

7 years ago

India needs to create and sustain essential competitive advantages

By Amit Kapoor Our chief economic advisor very succinctly put it recently that India is both a story of revival…

7 years ago

Why are Muslim achievements and liberal traditions not celebrated?

By Saeed Naqvi It does not surprise me that the continuing debate on the Op-Ed page of the Indian Express…

7 years ago

How China can help India take a giant leap in Artificial Intelligence

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Tech honchos in Silicon Valley are deeply worried at China's rapid progress…

7 years ago

Anything for a laugh: Literary pranksters and their exploits

By Vikas Datta Among the many paradoxes of the human condition is that, despite time itself playing tricks on us,…

7 years ago



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