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Karamchari to Karamyogi: Meritocracy has transformed cricket, streaming & PE. A lesson for civil service reform

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Covid is a human tragedy but accelerated three meritocracy revolutions – IPL, streaming platforms and private equity (PE) – for cricketers, actors and entrepreneurs. These revolutions feel independent but are powered by the same force;.....

Castes & costs: Message of UP ticket distribution across parties is caste is king. Costs of this are piling up

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As various parties announce their candidate lists for polls in India’s most populous and hence most politically hefty state, Uttar Pradesh, it is clear that caste is the overriding factor for candidate selection across the.....

Wheels within wheels: Government diktats are not the same as good policy for clean energy or safety

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A market economy does not remove the need for a government to use a framework of incentives to influence the direction it takes. In this context, climate change is perhaps the most serious global threat.....

Captain who wouldn’t be dictated to: Virat Kohli built a team with a singular vision & took it as far as he could

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The very best leaders are ones who can work within a system and change it. Good ones can cope, manipulating what they can and accepting that some things are just beyond their control. Accepting that.....

Angry boys: Male gaze is an academic construct but male glare is a social media mania

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In the 1980s, coy-ed was the earliest formal lesson children received in the gender divide. Boys who broke the “no yakking in class” rule would be sent to the girls’ row. Though all children look.....

Overcome challenges with faith and patience

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By Radha Kumar The third wave of Covid-19 pandemic is upon us. As we try to find a way out of all the resulting uncertainty, the words ‘shraddha’ and ‘saburi’, faith and patience, frequently associated.....

Choose ‘smart’ over ‘smart alec’ for conflict resolution strategies

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India is gearing up for Amrit Mahotsava, but notwithstanding celebratory fervour, many conflicts within remain unresolved. The dominant mood being self-laudatory, honest introspection is hardlythe flavourof the season. Even the United States of America, despite.....

Is this BJP’s ‘don’t look up’ moment in UP?

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What the upcoming polls in UP and Punjab have to do with the season’s most debated Christmas release. I’d just come back from a charming birthday celebration on a tiny patch of garden, bang in.....

Novak Djokovic, and the self-entitlement bug that’s going around

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When the sniggering No Vax memes started appearing, it was game over for tennis great Novak Djokovic. No matter what happens in the Australian Open tug of war, World No 1 Djokovic has already lost.....

Can barter system work in today’s India?

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Amid a cash crunch and market shutdowns during COVID-19 many rural communities in India used barter to meet their needs—showing us why this form of exchange still works. When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, it.....

Baby Boomers, Gen X and millennials – Striking an organisational balance to achieve growth

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In terms of technology, the world has changed faster in the last fifty years than in the past 2000 years. The advent of the internet and digital technologies hastened the change even further. Today’s world.....

China in India’s Backyard: Sphere of Influence Does Matter

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit (January 04-08-21) to Eritrea, Kenya, and Comoros might be designed to follow China’s 32-year tradition of choosing Africa as the Foreign Minister’s first destination abroad in the new year......

Oh-My-Cron

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“Tilt your head back,” the technician instructed as he advanced threateningly towards me with a swab stick in his hand. I felt as if I am going to be stabbed. To stop imagining things, I.....

How Virat Kohli’s men lost the plot & failed to breach the Final Frontier

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The final frontier remains the final frontier. This was Team India’s best chance ever to carve out a series win against South Africa in South Africa. It was an opportunity lost. A couple of dubious.....

Consent/Crime: About time courts criminalise marital rape

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As the Delhi high court hears a clutch of petitions on overturning the marital rape exception in rape law, the judge asked why the legal response should be different for a married woman and a.....

Meditation that takes you beyond all limits

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By Ashok Vohra According to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, ‘Mankind was not born to suffer, mankind was born to enjoy. The purpose of life is to expand happiness.’ Human beings can get rid of their suffering,.....

Innovation now will rejuvenate India’s creative economy post pandemic

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In November last year, the United Nations passed a resolution to announce it was marking 2021 as the ‘International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development’, underpinning the critical role the creative industries play in.....

Importance of Founding Team

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Imagine a competent cricket team of 11 players But, there is a twist…. What if they are ALL excellent batsmen? Or ALL fantastic spin bowlers? Basically all have similar skill sets, thereby precluding any synergies.....

Hyperautomation: The key to digital transformation

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Over the decades, the concept of automation has evolved from a mere buzzword in the boardroom to a gamechanger for organizations across many industries. Having witnessed the fruits of automation, businesses are now utilizing hyperautomation.....

Top AI Trends to expect in 2022

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We live in an AI-driven world. Artificial intelligence (AI) has had a significant impact on the strengthening and transformation of industries all over the world. As we go deeper into a digitally altered society, artificial.....

Women vs the marriage fatwa: Children become adults at 18. Deciding when to marry is the basic human right of all adults

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Folklore has it that in the medieval ages the king’s consent was required for people to cohabit. The expression “fornication under consent of king” whose abbreviation translated into a more popularly used word to depict.....

Learning from 2021, EC gets it right in 2022: Guidelines for state polls are tough on parties and clear on tasks for administrators

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Covid combat measures for upcoming state elections announced by the Election Commission are one of the smartest interventions ever made by this constitutional body. If we focus attention only on EC’s rule on virtual election.....

Top 5 trends for the pharma industry in 2022

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The pharma industry has seen a rapid rise in the past three years with rapid digitization and the advanced research in the field has opened gates for newer avenues of treatment for mankind. The pharmaceutical.....

Turmoil over Delimitation Commission’s Proposal Part – 3

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Dissecting Delimitation Controversy – Continued………. The case of reported genocide of Kashmiri Hindus in 1990 – A historical incident of the recent past All said & done, one may ask, when in their judgements, the.....

India-Pakistan ties could do with a constituency of pragmatists

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The tortuous bilateral relationship between India and Pakistan may take an intriguing turn on the heels of two discrete events. In December, Pakistan’s civil and military leadership reportedly approved the country’s first integrated National Security.....

Move over drones, as the space, real and cyber are the latest theatres of war

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With covid waves hitting again and again, the world is clearly in a state of flux where no nation is feeling sure or secure about the future, so we are clearly heading towards a decade.....

Game on in UP: SP borrows BJP’s tactic of building a wide social coalition. The biggest state poll gets more interesting

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Resignations of two UP cabinet ministers and four legislators have shaken BJP, so far considered the favourite. Samajwadi Party is likely to be Swami Prasad Maurya’s destination, naturally so because UP is seeing BJP and.....

New GST rule: Gargle, Steam, Temperature is my taxing regimen

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The omnipresent, omnivorous, ominous Omicron has created a never-before phenomenon. The haves are speedily outnumbering the have-nots. It’s not just an economic marvel. Epidemiologists say that this insatiable but less virulent mutant could turn out.....

Driving cloud and digitization in India for 2022 and beyond

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In India, businesses have considered cloud adoption a technology priority, but the pandemic has created a perfect storm of digitization across the country. We are seeing reinvention cross almost every industry due to cloud. This.....

Managing post-Covid care through CDSS

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For the first time in the last two years, we are in a better position to map the progress and the disruption of the healthcare sector, as we seem to have reached the tail end.....

Dear sleep

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You are my best friend. You take me into your bosom, right when I start to over think about my unachieved goals and future plans. Yes, I agree that you were way friendlier during my.....

Omicron, AI, Cheshire/Schrödinger’s cat, Maya/Medusa coming together to show us a new way?

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As I am very fond of finding a title first and then start my article, after typing out the above, I am sitting and admiring it like a cook who has thrown too many tasty.....

Subnational good for nation: Regional parties once checked Congress, now they check BJP. State polls are crucial

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Forthcoming elections in five states, where many regional parties are in contention, are a good context to remember a less-appreciated aspect of India’s democracy – subnational politics is a progressive force. Indian federalism was instituted.....

Voda won’t die, but good outcome unlikely: GoI’s DoT created the crisis, and GoI equity won’t make the telco sharper

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The threat to Vodafone Idea’s existence has all but vanished. However, the new reality is hardly good news for any stakeholders involved, whether the government, consumers and even Vodafone Idea. The blame must fall on.....

Don’t Fall For This Trap: Imran Khan is no one to lecture us, but majoritarianism in India needs to be checked

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has actually had the temerity to criticise the current Indian government for its silence on the anti-Muslim hate speeches by some speakers at the Dharam Sansad in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar last.....

Do you think straight A’s always mean a good future? Think again

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For years, the Indian CBSE curriculum has been a stage in life where students set sail in a vessel that only sails based on performance. The concept of acquiring essential skills such as critical thinking.....

Micro mobility- A concept whose time has come

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Last-mile connectivity and environment-friendly battery operation has pushed up use of battery bikes in large Indian cities. Wallet friendly costs also help. Dedicated lanes, more charging stations and some policy and finance support could well.....

We don’t even know how many doctors currently practice in India

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Dr. Robert Baid McClure has the registration number “1” in the Maharashtra Medical Council list, when you search the Indian Medical Registry on the National Medical Commission (NMC) site [1]. He died aged 90 in.....

‘Unreality’ of fact, ‘reality’ of fiction

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In an interview a few months ago, when asked why he chose to write fiction in an age when there was so much misinformation being propagated both in mainstream as well as social media, Salman.....

Who, not how much: EC should remove all limits on poll spending, but create a system where donor identity is public

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The Election Commission’s higher expenditure limits for poll candidates are irrelevant given political funding realities. There are no limits on the expenditure of campaigning political leaders or on political parties, as long as a candidate.....

Faith in God, the self & in the world around

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By CL Gulati Whenever we require something in life, we acquaint ourselves with its known attributes and characteristics for an objective test to affirm our faith in its genuineness. Once the attributes are testified, it.....

India’s infirm reforms path

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Is India a market maker or a market taker? In financial jargon, “takers” buy or sell at the price available in the market whilst “makers” actively buy and sell, thereby molding the market price and.....

Modi’s security breach

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Security is not a product but a process – Bruce Schneier On 05 January, Prime Minister Modi’s motorcade was stopped for 15-20 minutes atop a flyover in Punjab, just 15 km from Pakistan border. Why.....

Covid protocols: One rule for citizens, another for politicians

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On Sunday, many state governments restricted mobility in urban centres as a measure to slow the increase in the Covid caseload. A fallout of mobility restrictions is that it economically hurts many in the urban.....

Learning from D-SIBs in managing risks

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Reserve Bank of India declared SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC bank in India as Domestic – Systematically important Banks (DIBs) for 2021, based on annual review signifying their criticality in financial stability. Consequently, they need.....

How social reforms died in India

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In this day and age! This is how anyone with modern sensibilities would react to the report that the so-called upper caste students of a school in Uttarakhand refused to eat the midday meal cooked.....

Caste, communication, Covid: Not just social strategies & digital tools, EC’s campaign rules will also influence UP, Punjab polls

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Every election in India appears as a new text, asking to be read differently, but most times we end up reading them in conventional ways. Social reality and people’s aspirations are changing continuously. These changes.....

On track for 2070 net zero target: India’s clean energy transition is rapidly underway, benefiting the entire world

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Fatih Birol and Amitabh Kant India’s announcement that it aims to reach net zero emissions by 2070 and to meet 50% of its electricity requirements from renewable energy sources by 2030 is a hugely significant.....

Vigilantism at its height

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Indians are often aghast at the instances of punishment for blasphemy in Pakistan, but if we were to look at our own mirror, we are no less guilty of the crime. Cow vigilantism had overtaken.....

Turmoil over Delimitation Commission’s Proposal Part- 1

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Prime Minister Modi, in a meeting held on June 24, 2021, with political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, had made it clear that, for the political process to begin and elections to take place in.....

Outlook 2022: 6 customer engagement trends to look out for in emerging markets

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In the past year, the world welcomed 222 million new online users, a figure expanding at a rate of 4.8% each year. As businesses re-strategized their communication efforts to reach out to their customers on.....

COPD and age: Understand the co-relation

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The third leading cause of fatalities worldwide, with 3.23 million deaths in 2019 alone, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is widely prevalent in areas with severe pollution and low Air Quality Index (AQI). Initially, it.....

Painting India as illiberal is the new liberal tactic to tar Modi govt

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It is possible that the outrage of some retired notables and a section of the editorial classes over the extreme grandstanding of some lesser-known sadhus at Dharma Sansad gatherings would have been more calibrated had.....

Omicron shows why data, vaccine sharing are crucial in Covid fight

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We underestimated SARS-CoV2. History has taught us that for respiratory viruses that are transmissible, can spread as asymptomatic infections, have a genome made of RNA, and can enter into a completely unexposed population, the threat.....

Is detention of Novak Djokovic- a gimmick?

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After pulling out of ATP Cup Novak Djokovic was set to begin his 2022 season by participating in the Australian Open where he is a three-time defending champion. It has been reported that Novak, known.....

The ‘Omicron’ vs ‘The Cordelia Syndrome’

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I won’t say covid is back. It was very much there and had just taken a back seat. Our battle with Covid is getting tactical and we have to come out with different strategies for.....

Indian Med-tech organisations leading way for emergency preparedness: The good plan

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The year 2022 will be one to optimise on the learning of 2021. With new health threats rising in the West and East, this is specifically true for the Med-tech and consumables industry. Though the.....

New Year and corona

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I could hear the chimes. I could see the welcome celebrations. There was no knock on the door. Still, we welcomed it with all our might. “Welcome 2022” was the chorus. “Hello. I am Time......

The proof is in the pedagogy

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One college shows why OBE (‘teach without teaching’) is the new buzzword in higher education When Chackochan J Njavallil, an associate professor of the commerce department of Marian College (Autonomous), Kuttikkanam, addressed the newly-enrolled M.....

A mixed bag: GDP estimate shows recovery is not yet broadbased

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GoI’s advance estimate of the 2021-22 GDP shows that the economy has bounced back to the pre-pandemic level. GDP is expected to grow by 9.2% to Rs 147.53 lakh crore, or about $3.2 trillion. In.....

Why India needs a fiscal council: Budget process is too arbitrary and it needs another layer of scrutiny

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On December 13, 2021, the Union Minister of State for Finance in a written reply to the Parliament ruled out setting up of a fiscal council as recommended by the FRBM Review Committee. The reasoning.....

Looking back at 2021: A PR and Communications industry perspective

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The beauty of communication is that it is dynamic and ever changing. A communications strategy that worked some years ago will not work today. This is the most challenging yet exciting part about this profession.....

Intelligent investment tips for millennials

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Stocks are securities that provide investors with a piece of a company’s ownership, allowing them to profit directly from the company’s stock’s capital appreciation. However, at a time when the Indian stock market is performing.....

January 6 anniversary spotlights America’s gaping post-truth wounds

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A telling aftereffect of last year’s January 6 riot is how seriously America now debates whether it is headed towards a civil war, not metaphorically but literally. Some of this does look like mere alarmism,.....

Write laws for Bharat: Bills discussed by Parliament and court judgments must be simply written and easily translatable

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In 2021, the Indian Parliament enacted or amended 41 laws. These ranged from laws which regulate having children through surrogacy to those that promote transportation of cargo via rivers. During the same time, the Supreme.....

Infrastructure powerplay at the India-China border: From Hotan in Aksai Chin to Nyingchi near Arunachal, Beijing’s dual-use infra poses major threat

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India and China have been involved in multiple stand-offs on the disputed LAC in eastern Ladakh for the past 18 months. Both countries have also forward deployed their forces on the entire India-China border. Latest.....

Hurtling towards War

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Vaso Cubrilovic, one of the Serbian assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the mighty Austro-Hungarian throne (who was assassinated on 28 June 1914), later said of the event: “We destroyed a.....

Would Ecommerce replace retail stores and what would be the role of voice search in it?

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If I told you a decades ago that soon you would be able to buy almost anything and everything online, you wouldn’t believe me. I saw it coming in 2009 while heading marketing agency Apppl.....

Phygital design: Banking customers in the neo normal

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Financial services, including Banks and NBFCs, have progressed a long way in recent years. The past two decades have seen a big shift in the financial services sector and the emergence of the ‘online’ culture.....

Creating pathways for manufacturing workforce with a sustainable approach

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The Covid-19 pandemic brought to light the vulnerabilities of existing global supply chains. The manufacturing industry, too, felt the impact of the disruptions caused by raw material shortages, production slowdowns, and most of all, the.....

Gautam Gambhir writes: Delhi gets a ‘thekedar’ instead of chief minister

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Our national capital may be lagging behind in several parameters of development. It may not have enough houses for the growing number of people or new flyovers and parking spaces to manage traffic. It may.....

Manoj Tiwari writes: Can this nation afford to lose a duly-elected Prime Minister?

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Is this a tragedy which was averted? Or all the ‘ho halla’/ ‘din’ that has taken over the social media? Media platforms taking away the core question in this tragic situation? How such a security.....

Young & hateful: Bulli Bai accused are a larger message on what social media jungle & toxic politics can do

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In welcome progress in the ‘Bulli Bai’ case, within days Mumbai cyber police has made arrests spread from Bengaluru to Rudrapur and Kotdwar. This time virulent sexual harassment is being addressed with the investigative urgency.....

Great ecstasy comes from doing something useless

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By Osho You don’t know the usefulness of the useless. In fact, the useful is only useful so far. It has a certain utility, but the useless has no limitation to it. What is the.....

AFSPA 1958 – An astounding instrument safeguarding Indian territorial interests

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Armed Forces Special Powers Act was brought into the administrative and legal arena in 1958 in the NE through an ordinance and later to receive Parliamentary sanction to a series of Acts created by the.....

No freebie lunch: Opposition is promising cash and free services to voters. Where’s the money for all this?

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With state elections nearing, it’s open season for tempting the electorate with sops. And no party’s holding back. Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu has promised financial incentives ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000 for.....

Hospital hostages: Many private health centres hold patients to ransom for profit or through negligence

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As the coronavirus pandemic rages, there have been many cases of infected patients being kept for several months on costly life-support systems in private hospitals, when all hope has gone, at the anguish of loved.....

Confronting emergency with RT-PCR in Covid-19 pandemic: Discovery and implementation

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Coronavirus disease identified in 2019 (Covid-19) is a global pandemic and the emergency is not under control in two years. It is an infectious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus- 2 (SARS-CoV-2, referred.....

Jamini Roy’s Last Supper at DAG NY

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Amongst the early masters in DAG’s Wonder of India suite at NY is a Last Supper by Jamini Roy. In the telling testimony of this Biblical moment, Roy created his Christ series with a sense of.....

Census 2021: At least don’t delay it in 2022

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From 1881 when India conducted its first full Census to 2011 when it conducted its last decennial census, the exercise had never been deferred. But 2021’s exercise was postponed citing the Covid-19 pandemic and latest.....

Punish hatemongers: Dharm Sansad, Bulli Bai police probes must have demonstrable effects on communal bullies

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Uttarakhand’s SIT mandated to investigate the hate speech-ridden Dharm Sansad at Haridwar and parallel probes by Mumbai and Delhi police into cyber harassment of Muslim women through an app called ‘Bulli Bai’ are qualified reasons.....

Mr and Mrs: He is left with 3 inches by 2 inches space on the ledge above the sink, she gets the rest

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My wife and I decided to get away for two nights to a nice seaside resort and bypass the Covid cobwebs, my treat. I packed a small bag and she lugged down a large suitcase,.....

Distributed Incubator – Rethinking the startup agenda in pandemic backdrop

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For states like UP aspiring to be alternatives to Bangalore, Covid-19 has created an opportunity A company I founded was shortlisted by a prestigious London based incubator in 2019. But we could not commit to.....

A narrative that has hurt the religious feelings of Hindus who believe in Hindutva

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A religious controversy had erupted on 11th November 2021 over senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s alleged comparison of Hindutva with Islamist terror outfits ISIS and Boko Haram in his book “Sunrise over Ayodhya: Nationhood in.....

Eating & drinking: 5 New Year resolutions for 2022

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It’s the first week of January and that means one thing only — reflecting on the year gone by or predicting trends for the year ahead. So instead of doing one more of the same.....

The good, the bad… And, the right thing to do!

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Our everyday lives are besieged with choices, some inconsequential and some life-altering. Sometimes these life-altering choices can sort our whole lives, and sometimes they do come back to haunt us in the worst, unimaginable ways......

Let us not cross the Black Mirror into digital dystopia!

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We need to exercise caution in our choice of technology and acceptance of the deviant behaviours it enables before we cross over into a world of hate-filled digital dystopia where we no longer control our.....

Politics will dominate this year’s budget

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Last year, India got an economist’s budget. But with five states going to the polls soon after the Budget, radical reform is unlikely this time An “election budget” is typically one before a general election,.....

Love, loss and a few precious grains of happiness

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The word ‘loss’ is clumsy. Adequate for weight, investments and clothes that don’t come back from the dhobi. It doesn’t convey the decaying of hope, of holes that emerge within your mind, like you are.....

Is it time for Indian elections to go digital?

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The new guideline by the EC will put the smaller and regional parties in a fix if election campaigns go entirely digital. This despite the fact that a large crowd at election rallies doesn’t signify.....

The Phenomenon of Co-working Spaces and the Changing Landscape of the Corporate World

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After the two subsequent waves of COVID-19, cost-effectiveness, flexible hours, and workspaces closer to home became the most common office-related refrains in the corporate world, the pandemic redefined the concept of working. It paved the.....