Finance (India) What we marvel at reveals who we are livemint.com - Livemint The Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad is set to host a spectacle like none other, with Trump to be feted by Modi. It will transfix millions of us who …
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel How Nehru And Patel Emasculated Our Constitution In Less Than 16 Months swarajyamag.com - R Jagannathan Tripurdaman Singh’s latest brings us the drama and action of the final days of debate and disagreement that culminated in the adoption of the first …
Renewable Energy Is the renewable energy sector under stress? hindustantimes.com - Hindustan Times Home / Editorials / HT Editorial| Is the renewable energy sector under stress? If it is losing steam, as a new CSE report claims, the Centre must act …
India Now, Kem Chho Donald thestatesman.com - Statesman News Service The leadership of the world’s largest democracy and the world’s most affluent democracy will yet again engage in a public display of personal …
Finance (India) What if we could wipe out all infectious diseases? livemint.com - C.Y. Gopinath If infectious diseases are wiped out, chances are that we would still be faced with a miserable, costly and painful end to our lives, as there would …
Housing Fix the issues that plague the Indian housing market hindustantimes.com - Reuben Abraham and Pritika Hingorani A recent cover story in TheEconomist focused on what it termed as the “horrible housing blunder”. It outlined how an obsession with home ownership in …
Ahmedabad Wall may hide slum but Trump’s visit reveals abiding insecurities of Modi’s New India scroll.in - Ipsita Chakravarty When United States President Donald Trump arrives at the Ahmedabad airport on February 24, he will drive through New India. There will be cheering …
India Iran-US tensions and the Indian dilemma indianexpress.com - Debarati Guha Despite everything, the Iran nuclear deal is hanging by a thread, the question being, what implications could this have for India? India would like …
Assam AccordAssam: Inner Line Permit Is Not An Effective Gatekeeper But Kills Tourism And Investment Effectively; The Centre Must Reject swarajyamag.com - Jaideep Mazumdar Introducing ILP to Assam will only deter tourists, traders, businessmen and business visitors from entering the state. It will have a deleterious …
Finance (India) An India-US trade deal that must not hang fire livemint.com - Livemint Donald Trump’s utterances suggest Washington is in no hurry to seal a trade deal with New Delhi. A delay, however, would be a pity, as the …
The states are financially squeezed hindustantimes.com - Yamini Aiyar Missing in the analysis of the Union Budget has been any serious debate on the impact of the Government of India’s precarious fiscal math on state …
Mahatma Gandhi Misreading the Mahatma indianexpress.com - Shrikrishna Kulkarni Over the past few weeks, I watched with increasing distress the violent opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the as yet non-existent …
India must bow its head to Maharashtra on this day hindustantimes.com - Gopalkrishna Gandhi First, it is the birth anniversary, the jayanti, of the peerless Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1627/30–1680), our all-time hero and the emblazoned …
Delhi Metro It’s evident that Kejrinomics is neither scalable nor replicable livemint.com - R. Jagannathan The Delhi model of freebies may have stayed within fiscal limits but it’s no template for other states The results of the recent Delhi assembly …
Gender SC ruling in favour of women officers in Army is pathbreaking, extends arc of equality indianexpress.com - Upendra Baxi Article 14 of the Constitution has been pressed into service as prescribing “a right to rationality” that forbids any “blanket” and “absolute” …
Nuclear Energy Neighbours’ mind games indianexpress.com - Arun Prakash Given Pakistan’s paranoia about an ‘existential threat’ from India, New Delhi and Islamabad must initiate a confidence-building dialogue between …
India How women are shaping political outcomes in India hindustantimes.com - Shashi Shekhar Believe it or not, there is a silent revolution sweeping across India. After Independence, taking advantage of existing social inequities, …
Jeff Bezos An endowment that acts as an admission livemint.com - Livemint Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has set up a $10-billion fund to save the planet. This act endorses the view that the free market may have failed us and business …
India Trump Visit: US Wants Market Access To Indian Dairy Products And Chicken Legs But Could Settle For A Watered Down Deal swarajyamag.com - M R Subramani India-US trade is in a state of flux with Washington trying to derive maximum benefits and New Delhi resisting them, particularly to protect the …
Social Media A Kambala race and Usain Bolt comparisons: Why talent scouting via social media is problematic scroll.in - Abhijeet Kulkarni Social media went berserk in the last few days after a video of construction worker Srinivasa Gowda running in the Kambala buffalo race went viral. …
Military Understanding the inner workings and selection process of army hindustantimes.com - Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd) The entire issue of commissioning of officers into the armed forces is a complex one not easily understood outside the uniform. In the case of the …
India News Masood Azhar’s odd disappearance livemint.com - Livemint Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) decision on whether to blacklist Pakistan for terror financing, the Imran Khan government has said …
Weddings Is the Big Indian wedding missing a trick - or two? thestatesman.com - Statesman News Service J alebis or gulabjamuns? Maybe the gulabjamuns, as the queue at the live jalebi counter is long and I really cannot manage both, as the second (and …
Competition Law Reforming competition law for the digital age hindustantimes.com - Ananth Padmanabhan At a recent event, the chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) cautioned against the creation of large digital platforms and the …
Usain Bolt Kambala Champions Don’t Need Olympic Validation, They’re Champions Already swarajyamag.com - Harsha Bhat If India truly has to ‘rise and shine the Indic way’ then Indic sports need to be supported. Kambala — a word that was until last week known only to …
Smriti Mandhana T20 World Cup: To get a shot at history, Smriti Mandhana will need to be India’s sword and shield scroll.in - Ashish Magotra When India’s batting clicks, it can be hard to stop. Shafali Verma and Harmanpreet Kaur are among the biggest hitters in the women’s game. Jemimah …
Surrogacy Tracing the journey, and flaws, of the surrogacy bill hindustantimes.com - Prabha Kotiswaran and Sneha Banerjee The government has tried to regulate surrogacy for over a decade. Starting with the permissive 2005 guidelines of the Indian Council for Medical …
Donald Trump Win-win situation for Modi, Trump thestatesman.com - Statesman News Service Ahmedabad is getting all dressed up to receive US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania on February 24-25. It will be Prime Minister Modi’s …
India News Thank you, Hollywood, but spare us your moral lectures livemint.com - Sandipan Deb Last week’s ‘woke’ Academy Awards show came across as a hollow exercise in virtue-signalling I have been a Ricky Gervais fan for two decades, but my …
