Desperate times call for desperate measures
By Veturi Srivatsa India have announced their playing eleven for the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne and on paper the team looks better balanced than the sides that won in Adelaide and lost in Perth…
Commentary
Why B-schools need to engage in collaborative research
By Neena Sondhi A globalised market place, disruptive technological innovations, changing consumption patterns and evolving consumer behavior has led to challenging the existing paradigms. The premise of education in the current times, especially in the…
As India moves forward, it needs to learn from the past
By Amit Kapoor India is an elaborate mix of contradictions and complexities. It is rare to find other countries in the world that embrace such an extraordinary diversity of religions, a multitude of ethnic groups,…
Is Mamata scared of the BJP?
By Amulya Ganguli For a leader who enjoys a huge majority in the state assembly and faces virtually no credible challenge from her opponents, Mamata Banerjee is surprisingly insecure. Her uncertainty about her political position…
One INS Arihant does not make for a credible nuclear deterrence
By Admiral Arun Prakash (retd) The surge of national pride at the recent completion of “deterrent patrol” by the Indian Navy’s first home-built, nuclear-propelled, ballistic-missile-armed submarine (termed SSBN), INS Arihant, is fully justified. Just five…
India’s energy subsidies moving in the right direction
By Vibhuti Garg & Tara Laan India has become an outspoken proponent of renewable energy, including at the just-concluded COP24 in Poland and as champion of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). But do the facts…
Why did Saraswati disappear? Mythical river raises questions today
By Paro Anand I don’t often write about mythology. It’s today’s stories that engage me. Yet I found myself suddenly drawn to an ancient story. What drew me in was how relevant the questions it…
SEZ value creation: Core infrastructure meets services
By Taponeel Mukherjee The Baba Kalyani-led committee constituted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to study the existing Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy, brings to attention the importance of boosting and improving the SEZ…
Reaffirming faith in the fight against climate change
By Amit Kapoor Conversations in India rarely revolve around the subject of climate change. The discussions around the topic are largely limited to the highest offices and international forums, while the countrys citizens remain mostly…
Is climate change apocalypse real? Practice is better than preaching
By Arul Louis Is the looming climate change apocalypse real? In the clearly-demarcated battle lines, the good guys are those who believe it is and the bad guys, like US President Donald Trump, are the…
Can Rahul’s Hinduism succeed where bogus secularism failed?
By Saeed Naqvi It will be impossible to resist the temptation of attributing Congress gains in the three northern states to Rahul Gandhi’s demonstrative adoption of Hinduism. In some measure, that is. There are two…
Now comes the hard part for the Congress
By Amulya Ganguli Winning, although narrowly in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, was the easy part for the Congress. The favourable signals were there from the party’s earlier by-election victories in the two states. But despite…
Leveraging community leaders to build resilience against climate change in urban areas
By Vineeth Menon and Shreejith Borthakur While cities cover only two per cent of the global land area, they contribute around 70 per cent of the global greenhouse emissions, one of the main drivers of…
Decarbonisation or Destabilisation? Trust gap widens as time narrows at COP24
By Rajendra Shende “Since I last addressed the COP in 2009, Ive been deposed in a coup, thrown into jail, and forced into exile. But almost 10 years since I was last at these climate…
Deciphering the state elections
By Amit Kapoor & Manisha Kapoor The results of the much-awaited state elections are finally out. By all accounts, it was unexpected that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be voted out of power in…
Want to double farm incomes? Promote mustard
By Vivek Puri The Indian government wants to double the income of farmers by 2022. A roadmap prepared by NITI Aayog outlines the rationale, strategy and action plan for achieving this commendable milestone. We believe…
10 digital skills students need for today’s education
By Beas Dev Ralhan & Divya Jain Technology today has become a new way of living and is entrenched in every facet of modern human life. The internet, mobile phones, computers and various other tools…
Salvaging trust after Urjit Patel’s exit
By Amit Kapoor & Chirag Yadav Disagreements between the government and the central bank are a common occurrence in any economy. It is an expected outcome, given their contrasting roles where one has to maintain…
“Sadak, bijli, paani”: Basic, yet game-changing
By Taponeel Mukherjee Given the varied use of government spending, the question remains on how important it is to focus on the “basic” infrastructure services such as roads, electricity and water — the classic troika…
Universities should consult industry on designing courses to make students employable
By Amit Kapoor Even though the idea of globalisation has come under fire in the last few years, with increasing levels of discontentment over inequity in the distribution of gains, the benefits that the world…