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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Prof Vivekanand Jha Premature death and disability from cancer is a great tragedy that hundreds of thousands of women and their families in India and other developing countries face every year. Of the various…
By Ali Peter John Two days ago, Dharmendra was in his bungalow in Juhu (these days he spends most of his time on his farm in Lonavala, where he is busy writing poetry in Urdu)…