Maneesh Pandeya

TIME TO PLAY THE QUAD GAME TO CONTAIN CHINA

June 5, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “jet-setting diplomacy” in his first term didn’t get the praise as desired. But five years later, the overseas reach out by PM Modi had brought more in diplomacy dividends than by the entire budget spent on the publicity of “Incredible India” by the country’s Tourism Ministry...

Time for India to be the world’s breadmaker

June 2, 2020

History repeats itself, but in new avatars. Perhaps, the Covid-19 pandemic has yet again put India at the cusp of a change-in-making. Many centuries ago, Indians crossed many geographies as labourers for our colonial masters. Many generations later, the labour lineage is today settled as the renowned diaspora spread from...

Private hospitals must not forget their dharma

June 1, 2020

The “Art of Living” gets completed only with the “Art of Giving”. Philanthropy must follow profits and that has made the developed nations stand out when it comes to battling crises like pandemics and helping out mankind in distress. Even the Spanish flu-hit America came out to be a global...

Aatmanirbhar Bharat: Make agriculture smart, villages smarter

May 21, 2020

In the last five years of India’s economic development and nation building, the “Smart City” tag has created the maximum buzz. It was supposed to be home to jobs, assured income and basic to high quality living. The “smart cities” today are helpless, jobless and most of them, penniless. The...

Villages key to economic revival

May 15, 2020

In his first term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had strongly pushed for “going back to villages”, building upon the self-sufficient village model based on Gandhian philosophy. Not heeding this, many opted for staying stuck into cities and continue living in inhuman conditions. Now, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced them to...

Play Vietnam in ‘surgical war’ against China

May 13, 2020

The world battles the novel coronavirus on multiple fronts, one of which is the pandemic itself, another being engaged with China in a verbal warfare over the latter’s “alleged role” in the outbreak of the virus, while yet another being stopping it from hacking sensitive data and research related to...

Bihar has a Covid plan in place to deal with migrants: DGP

May 11, 2020

With about 600-odd corona-positive cases, over 320 having recovered out of that and five deaths as on Sunday, Bihar seem to be battling well against the pandemic and is only gearing up against the new challenge -- hordes of migrants returning back home with a possible risk of carrying the...

Drinking can’t get priority over death

May 8, 2020

Have we also locked down our brains during the lockdown? The case here is of the 48 hours of liquor mayhem we saw on Indian streets. God knows how many hundreds of crores we added in our empty coffers and how much that is going to inject the booster dose...

India won’t get the second chance

May 5, 2020

I n the new geopolitical dynamics, where focus shifts from West to East, the meteoric rise of India, strikingly similar to China’s about 15-20 years ago, has caught many eyes worldwide, to acknowledge the new leader in the making. Be it the intense commercial competitiveness to be in the elite...

India has handled corona at its best: Denmark envoy

May 4, 2020

India and Denmark share a strong friendship and ties built on strategic diplomacy, the one without much news and fuss. The two nations have once again come together to fight the coronavirus pandemic as “real friends”. While the Danes are sharing their best of healthcare research to make a breakthrough...

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