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End of a roll: The curious rise and fall of Adani stocks

The manufactured anger against Hindenburg for revelations about Adani share prices is quite strange.
Sukumar Muralidharan
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar responding to the opposition on the Chhapra hooch tragedy in the Assembly in Patna on December 14.

Bihar, Nitish Kumar, and the prohibition debate

Curtailing basic liberties on a presumption that individuals tend to abuse them is self-defeating.
Sukumar Muralidharan
About a month after the BJP government revoked the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under the Constitution, CRPF personnel patrolling a deserted street in Srinagar, in September 2019.  

How the vision of ‘One Nation’ suppresses alternative voices

The unity of the nation is now identified with the internal cohesion of the ruling party.
Sukumar Muralidharan
Sumitra Das inside her kirana shop in Talit Daspara, Bardhaman, West Bengal, which she had to shut down as she could not afford to buy the stock anymore. From the last quarter of 2021 onwards, there has been a visible slump in the rural demand for both durables and items of mass consumption.

Expert Explains: What’s the remedy against rising inflation?

Growth is not the panacea it is held out to be because the truth is a severely skewed distribution of wealth and resources is counteracting all growth
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