Why farmers don’t have electoral clout
Context: The Union government in the 2017-18 budget allocated just 11 per cent of its expenditure to the entire rural sector, including Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or…
Countering growing inequality
Context: The release recently of the World Inequality Report 2018 has brought into focus an aspect of economic progress in India. This is the continuous growth in inequality here since the mid-1980s.…
How India rejects bad patents
Context: In 2005, India made some remarkable amendments to the Indian Patents Act of 1970, to keep medicines affordable in the country. Since then we have faced a significant blowback…
The rise and fall of the WTO
Context: Less than 25 years after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was created, its future as a body overseeing multilateral trade rules is in doubt. The failure of the recent…
Technology alone isn’t the solution: on the air pollution crisis
Explaining urban air pollution: Urban air pollution refers largely to the mixture of gases and small particles in the lowest hundred or so metres, a result of human activity associated…
Turning the corner
Context: There was a collective sigh of relief when the second quarter GDP data were released officially by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The government folks were relieved that a…
A game of chicken in the Korean peninsula
Context: Thirteen thousand kilometres. That’s how far North Korea’s newest Hwasong-15 missile can travel, which puts the United States, its principal adversary, within striking distance. With nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic…
Arbitrary and irrational
Context: The proposal by the government to introduce a Muslim Woman Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill in the winter session of Parliament — wherein a husband who resorts to instant triple…
Let us be realistic about the UNSC
Context: Our recent victory in the hotly contested election to the International Court of Justice seems to have lifted our spirits as a nation. We are justifiably proud of our…
Human rights and Indian values
Context: Dadri, Alwar and Rajsamand are names that must ring a bell for every aware Indian. In a little more than a year these have been sites where a fellow…
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