Preoccupations A universal basic income in India? THERE is a lot of buzz globally around the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). It is ...
The tyranny of populism THOMAS PAINE in his Common Sense put it so presciently that it belongs as much here and ...
Economic Perspectives UDAY fails to rise THE State of Jharkhand has reportedly stopped payments to Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) ...
Column Trump’s protectionist charade WITH Donald Trump assuming office as United States President, the fear that he will turn ...
Buckling under pressure IS there no one left in our important institutions who is still capable of speaking truth ...
Economic Perspectives Digital mirage PRIME Minister Narendra Modi is selling the idea that the engineered cash shortage that ...
Preoccupations Digital dreams “PLASTIC is the new khadi” is the currently popular saying transmitted across social ...
Economic Perspectives Budget after demonetisation Having announced that it is advancing the date of presentation of the annual Budget by a ...
Anecdotal recaps IT may be both stretching a metaphor and mixing metaphors, but one is nevertheless tempted ...
Economic Perspectives Uncertain media future IN today’s troubled times, mega mergers are the norm. Announcements of marriages like that ...
Colombia’s search for peace THEY march in tens of thousands, every Wednesday, through the streets of central Bogota: ...
Unmediated Nationalism cannot be a TV season ARTHUR MILLER characterised a good newspaper as a nation talking to itself. That was in ...
Economic Perspectives How is India Inc doing? GROWTH in India’s non-financial corporate sector shrank in 2015-16, after three ...
Has the American Right got it right? A VISIT to the United States at the height of the presidential election season creates an ...
Hegemony of capital THREE parallel developments that caught media attention recently point to the restoration ...
Fiscal deficit & its limits THE ongoing review of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBMA), 2003, ...
When rumour has it THE German philosopher Gotthold Lessing, who was a precursor of existentialism, had ...
Voice of sanity For many years now, the annual Trade and Development Report (TDR) produced by UNCTAD ...
Minding the language WE are not quite sure what our public thinks of our journalism. What the American public ...
Anti-farmer mergers IN an acceleration of a trend towards mega-mergers in the agribusiness area, German pharma ...
Battle against Apple and other giants ON August 30, European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager dropped a bombshell at ...
To skill & be skilled SKILL development and training are two terms that are greatly beloved of policy makers—and ...
Economic Perspectives Ineffective instrument ON August 9, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan released the last ...
Preoccupations End of globalisation? THERE is much angst in the Northern financial media about how the era of globalisation led ...
