By Vasudevan Sridharan Chennai, Jan 11 (IANS/Mongabay) “When some visitors ask, ‘How do the birds know this lake is full?’, I simply tell them that I telephone the migratory birds and inform them,” said Ramesh…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi There is a general refrain from parents that their children are spending too much time with their smartphones — chatting, SMSing or being on social media. Besides neglecting their studies, parents…
By Taponeel Mukherjee The renewable energy sector in India has been dynamic in the last two decades, and especially over the last few years, with ambitious targets. That said, recent bottlenecks the sector has faced…
By Amit Kapoor Even the most optimistic estimates cannot deny that in all likelihood, the world economy will grow at a slower pace in 2019 than it did in the previous year. Most significantly, the…
By Ankit Kansal India’s housing sector has always been a favorite amongst domestic investors. As an asset, housing has enjoyed high capital growth backed by high demand in major Indian cities. Besides, easy leverage and…
By Mayank Chhaya Kader Khan rose from the depths of a Dickensian childhood in the Bombay of the 1940s, surrounded by drug peddlers, prostitutes, pimps and assorted thugs to eventually embody the essence of Hindi…
By Saeed Naqvi “Problems” like Afghanistan, even Iran, created in the thick of the Cold War, are now in the lap of a declining sole superpower in a withdrawal mode. Since I was witness to…
By Arun Bapat During the recent past, there have been a number of publications, discussions and meetings about the possibility of a large magnitude earthquake in the Himalayas that have left most people with a…
By Amulya Ganguli Unlike the Congress, the communists or the socialists, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rarely seen major fissures. Occasionally, a person may have become involved in political feuds within the party, as…
By Arnab Neil Sengupta Events of the year that has just gone by have underscored once again the stark fact that independent and sovereign statehood is the ultimate currency of power. The patronage of distant…
By Arshan Vakil What is it that you need to do to make sure you give of your best during an interview? Selling yourself is one way to impress any recruiter. How can you do…
By Taponeel Mukherjee Access to credit, data and transportation are among the most crucial drivers of economic well-being. To ensure better access to critical needs in India, Rod Tidwell’s famous line from Jerry Maguire, “Show…
By Frank F. Islam When Narendra Modi was running for office, he promised to create 10 million jobs per year. The Modi administration has come nowhere near generating that number of jobs during his tenure…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi & Nandini Nimbkar The Indian government is accelerating its programme of blending ethanol with petrol for two reasons: Our petroleum import bill is continuously increasing (we import more than 85 per…
By Amit Kapoor Given the limited fiscal space to increase the expenditure on social services, such as education and health, it is essential for the governments of developing countries like India to enhance their public…
By Saeed Naqvi With the suddenness of revelation, withdrawal from Syria and “drawdown” from Afghanistan have been announced by Donald Trump. In the past, such announcements were followed up with a tidy pattern: Two steps…
By Vinod Behl Though the fledgling real estate sector facing a slowdown due to the weak residential segment showed signs of recovery this year with affordable and mid-segment housing driving sales amidst largely stagnant prices,…
By Amulya Ganguli The day before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) waxed eloquent on the triple talaq bill in parliament, saffron bullies confronted a group of Muslims offering namaz (prayers) at a park in Noida,…
By Arnab Neil Sengupta If nothing else, the Kurds of the world now know they are the world’s most-loved ethnic group. For that, they owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip…
By Taponeel Mukherjee As 2018 ends and we head into 2019, it would be worthwhile to s an the investment horizon and identify important strategies that investors and entrepreneurs could explore to create businesses that…