Opinion

IT’S THE OLD NORMAL IN INDIAN POLITICS

03 Jun 2020 02:33 AM IST

Normal life will take a while to figure out the “new normal” but as far as politicians are concerned it is back to business as usual. The Rajya Sabha elections have been slated for mid-June, finally Jyotiraditya Scindia can get that seat he has gambled his political future on. A

Do we need a new Parliament complex?

03 Jun 2020 02:31 AM IST

It would be best not to commission a new and larger Parliament building without anticipating the consequences of a drastically enlarged membership on the functioning of the Houses.

Cutting the Gordian knot of history’s leftovers

03 Jun 2020 02:25 AM IST

The most inspiring dimension of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first year of his second term is the speed and determination with which he has sought to settle some of the most unsettled facts of postIndependence India’s political history and evolution. In the last one year of Modi’s second term, one

Time for India to be the world’s breadmaker

02 Jun 2020 05:20 AM IST

Food would be a crucial area for India to expand overseas and fill into the supply chain with a possible exit of China from the global markets.

Welcome, ‘unlockdown’

02 Jun 2020 05:12 AM IST

The decision to move the country from lockdown to “unlockdown”, is more than welcome. The past few months have seen not only a health crisis triggered by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but also an economic meltdown of proportions that this country has not seen ever since Independence. In

You’ve graduated! Now what? The college graduate’s dilemma

02 Jun 2020 05:03 AM IST

Regardless of where in the world they are, graduates are feeling the loss of their final months at their academic institutions.

Red is not dead

01 Jun 2020 05:49 AM IST

The obituaries of the Left were clearly premature, for it is alive and kicking—and kicking all of us. Both in our country and elsewhere.

Six steps to develop skill strategy post-Covid

01 Jun 2020 05:49 AM IST

The world of work has been changing since the last few decades. It picked momentum in the last decade but the velocity of the change after Covid-19 has been very fast and unpredictable. The government will need to emphasise a strategic shift in the skilling policy of the country and

Private hospitals must not forget their dharma

01 Jun 2020 05:48 AM IST

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

Nationwide lockdown and ‘hyper’ activism in RWAs

01 Jun 2020 05:48 AM IST

The lockdown, enforced to contain Covid-19, has seen the near absence or loss of deliberative space in the ‘gated community’.

Convert ‘Black Swan’ of migration into advantage

30 May 2020 05:18 AM IST

Covid-19, a pandemic which has now accentuated an economic crisis, could be converted into a turning point for India to become a superpower provided all the right moves are made.

The return to good-old politics

30 May 2020 05:18 AM IST

Suddenly in the middle of the Covid crisis we saw a return to old-fashioned politics. Last week there were speculations as to whether the Maharashtra government would be toppled. The speculation was set off with Sharad Pawar suddenly calling on the state governor, along with Praful Patel. This was followed