Opinion

Murder Most Foul

28 Jan 2023 10:54 AM IST

It was exactly 42 years ago on 25 January 1981 when the Police Control Room received a call from the residence of a Union Minister on Ashoka Road that Constable Tejpal Singh posted there as a security guard had been shot dead by an intruder. Being the eve of the

Teaching about Kashmir in Kashmir

28 Jan 2023 08:06 AM IST

Teaching and learning are complex social and psychological processes. Teaching what and how much has always remained a double- edged concern, like whether teaching about caste, reli-gion, sex or conflict would make learners overt and predisposed. The deleteri-ous crisis and conflict world over and so in Kashmir affects not only

How your lifestyle sickness,<br>keeps Big Pharma in business

How your lifestyle sickness,
keeps Big Pharma in business

28 Jan 2023 06:55 AM IST

In this concluding part of the series – India needn’t follow the ‘broken’ US healthcare model, let’s focus our attention on the perpetu-al sickness that keeps the in-dustry in business, and how India can play it differently. A recent poll from Gallup found that the pharmaceutical sector is the most

CHINA JITTERY OVER INDIA’S SUPPORT TO SRI LANKA

27 Jan 2023 08:08 AM IST

Undoubtedly, India is making all possible efforts to ensure that Sri Lanka recovers from its worst economic crisis speedily. Last week, India became the first of Sri Lanka’s creditors to officially back Colombo’s debt restructuring programme by sending financial assurances to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In fact, the IMF

Unwed mother status among indigenous tribes versus modern society

27 Jan 2023 08:07 AM IST

For many in India, live-inrelationship might be a modern concept or it might be a concept that has been adopted here from a developed country where live-in-relationship is very much common. For many, it’s immoral practice and it’s against our Indian culture to stay together before marriage or to have

How Big Pharma bulldozes cultures, muzzles opinion

27 Jan 2023 08:06 AM IST

When we ‘medicalise emotions’, we shift the responsibility for mental well-being away from a naturally resilient brain, into the hands of Big Pharma, who reap multi-billion-dollar profits by making them medical conditions. When we talk of Big Pharma marketing, we visualize trade sanctions and bullying local governments. The process is

IN WHICH DIRECTION IS RAHUL HEADED?

26 Jan 2023 07:06 AM IST

There is a very telling sentence in the letter that Congress leader from Kerala, Anil K. Antony wrote on Wednesday while resigning from the party: “you, your colleagues, and the coterie around the leadership are only keen to work with a bunch of sycophants and chamchas, who would unquestionably be

From Vigyana to Gyana: India’s ambition for Science20

26 Jan 2023 07:05 AM IST

In 1999, when the Group of Twenty (G20) was formed, it was a disruptive idea in itself. The idea of forming such an intergovernmental organisation was first conceived after the Asian financial crisis of 1997. It provided a forum for governors of central banks and finance ministers to meet and

India needn’t follow ‘broken’ US healthcare model

26 Jan 2023 07:03 AM IST

North America is Big Pharma’s wet dream, with 45% of the global market share coming from just 4% of the total world population. Mayo Clinic found 70% of Americans are prescribed at least one medication including, antibiotics, anti-depressants, and painkillers. What better than to model the whole world, after this

THE YATRA AND BEYOND

25 Jan 2023 06:49 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is heading towards its finale end month. It has definitely kept the Congress leader in the headlines as he met with the rest of Bharat. It has done wonders for his image, as no one is going to call him a Pappu anymore, and the

Kashmir’s children of violence ‘victims’ of conflict-crime nexus

25 Jan 2023 06:44 AM IST

The deleterious armed conflict annexed with the politics of abomination has not only affected the developmental niches of the children in Kashmir, but has also led to intricate socio-cultural dimensions of this region. Every society is unique in its functioning, but conflict makes Kashmir more intriguing not for its quintessential

R-Day invite to Sisi marks India’s Africa outreach

25 Jan 2023 06:43 AM IST

India’s invitation to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to the Republic Day celebrations as a Guest of Honour on Republic Day on 26 January can be marked as an essential outreach effort by the Indian government to the continent of Africa. Egypt, the second largest economy of the African continent,