As Bihar inches towards Assembly elections, Paswans cross swords with coalition leader Nitish Kumar
Economic Perspectives A nexus under attack NO discussion of South Korea’s dramatic transition from a poor underdeveloped country to a ...
The long fight for justice THERE are many reasons to worry about and to be anguished by the communalisation of Indian ...
Born to blush unseen There was a shortlist of 10 Malayalam films made in 2016 before the three members of the ...
Wicked loans & bad banks THE crisis created by non-performing assets (NPAs) on the balance sheets of commercial ...
Music in the Romantic imagination WHAT makes for a “Romantic” sensibility? Not in the literal sense of being inclined to ...
Post-Trump press-pective WHEN the most powerful person in the world, before and after he became that, has been ...
New Age gurudom THE growing dominance of religiosity in the public sphere engineered by New Age gurus and ...
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 ...
