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Looking for an Eluid Kipchoge near Gir forest

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The extraordinary Eluid Kipchoge’s marathon world record on 16th September in Berlin will perhaps always be regarded as one of sport’s watershed moments. Kipchoge is almost surely the best distance runner ever. The aim of.....

Is India’s CAD vulnerability caused by consumption patterns of richest 100 million?

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Rathin Roy, director of economic think-tank National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and a part-time member of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, in an interview to Indian Express has highlighted the structural nature of.....

Nepal’s Time: India has to reorient its approach towards the Himalayan republic

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At an event organised by the Embassy of Nepal here in New Delhi to mark the occasions of Constitution Day and National Day of the Himalayan republic, the diplomatic community was well represented. The ambassadors.....

Mayawati plays hardball, sending Congress a warning in Hindi heartland

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After warning earlier this week of pulling out of gathbandhans if not given a respectable share of seats, BSP supremo Mayawati has made the first move by entering into an alliance in Chhattisgarh with Congress.....

Islamabad seeks a bovine boost to fend off bankruptcy

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Even as New Delhi copes with a rupee nosediving vis-a-vis the US dollar, neighbouring Pakistan’s economy is in a far more parlous state. As in India, the villain of the piece in Pakistan is the.....

Studies show poverty in India is shrinking, focus now on growing the middle class

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Study after study has been showing that India’s poverty map is shrinking. Earlier this year, the Brookings Institute report established that India has ceded the ignominious position of the country with world’s highest number of.....

Caste costs lives: Violence against inter-caste couples exposes gap between law and reality

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The recent historic verdict of the Supreme Court decriminalising homosexuality was a recognition of the universal principle that love transcends gender, social norms and traditions. But two incidents from Telangana serve as a stark reminder.....

Markets too big to fail? Ten years after the Great Recession, central bankers may have planted the seeds for the next crisis

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After the fall of Lehman Brothers ten years ago, there was a heated public debate about how the leading American banks had grown “too big to fail.” But it overlooked the larger story, about how.....

Peace Booster: Third Kim-Moon meeting revives hope for resolution of Korean issues

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In their third meeting this year, leaders of North and South Korea – Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in respectively – have unveiled a new set of agreements to reduce the threat of war and bring.....

By criminalising triple talaq, the BJP has scored a nifty goal against the opposition

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The Congress has accused the BJP of playing ‘political football’ with the contentious issue of triple talaq. The accusation is absolutely right. The BJP has indeed played political football with triple talaq by passing an.....

Indian healthcare is poised for a great leap forward with Ayushman Bharat – which will insure over 50 crore citizens

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Flowing from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visionary leadership, the National Health Policy 2017 was formulated to achieve the highest possible level of good health and well-being, and universal access to good quality healthcare services without.....

Listen to Supreme Court: Police reforms are necessary to change it from a colonial to people-friendly force

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In a couple of days from now, the police fraternity will observe Police Reforms Day. What is the significance of this day? As far back as 1902-03, the Fraser Commission recorded that “the police force.....

Yogi Adityanath’s advise to sugarcane farmers contradicts his preferred policy

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Last week, at a public rally in western Uttar Pradesh, the state’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath advised sugarcane farmers to restrict the cultivation of sugarcane on account of the link between sugar and diabetes. The.....

US-China trade war escalates, New Delhi must spot new opportunities in reshaped playing field

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Though China has retaliated against the Trump administration’s decision to impose a fresh 10% tax on 6000 Chinese items worth $200 billion, with new tariffs on 5207 US products, this trade war is heavily tilted.....

Test of fairness: Supreme Court’s scrutiny of Pune police stems from its constitutional duty to uphold rights

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Supreme Court’s decision to examine evidence that Pune police claims prompted the arrest of five activists will bring clarity to a case vitiated by departures from due procedure. Those defending the arrested activists have accused.....

Running on empty: As petrol and diesel prices go higher and higher, we’ll all save more and more money

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In India we are witnessing a refutation of Newton’s law of gravity which says that everything that goes up must eventually come down: petrol and diesel prices have shot up like an Isro rocket and.....

What depression is not

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Major Depressive Disorder, or Major Depression, or MDD, or simply depression, is categorized as a mental illness that affects about 350 million people the world over, which is roughly about 5% of the world’s population......

Founders Friday – Landit

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Friday Morning It’s Friday, which means time to head to NY’s hidden gem – Founder’s Friday. This week’s featured guest is Lisa Skeete Tatum. Lisa is exactly who you would want to run into on.....

Highway mayhem: Road safety can be enhanced if designs account for the inevitability of human error

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A recent study by agencies that included the World Bank and National Highways Authority of India found that about 30% of the Mumbai-Delhi stretch and 50% of the Mumbai-Chennai stretch of the Golden Quadrilateral are.....

Koan, a Zen way to self-realisation

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By Kamal Jain According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘koan’ is a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment. Zen.....

Indian technical education needs wholesale reform

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Last month, as part of my research for my book on Indian millennials, I visited and spent a few days at the Infosys headquarters in Bangalore and the company’s 330-acre campus in Mysore. I was.....

On Nepal and Bhutan, Army chief General Rawat is right, and wrong too

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Army chief General Bipin Rawat is both right and wrong about why Nepal and Bhutan cannot delink from India. First, he is right that Nepal and Bhutan are geographically inclined towards India. Both the countries.....

Unfinished story: India’s HDI ranking shows success in poverty reduction but failure on equality

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India’s ranking in UN’s Human Development Index (HDI) went up by just one from last year, to 130th. But the country has made appreciable strides on its HDI value since 1990. India’s HDI value was.....

Be a man: Join the fight against the Rohit Tomar syndrome

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Sometimes when you feel the TV remote is not being sufficiently obedient you slap it a bit to fix that. Some people thump their washing machines or kick their lawnmowers to make them work better......

Ear to ear

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As per trends, advice and personal leanings, celebrities when they have less than they want on their hands in a previous mainstream profession, take up “activism” for a social cause. The most recent one is.....

Poetic Licence: ‘But who will take care of you in your old age?’

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“But who will take care of you in your old age?” is the only question my parents ask that actually stumps me. It’s the only one I have stopped finding reasonable-sounding answers to. I lay.....

Lesson from Frida: Backbone can win over broken spine

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The retrospective at the V&A museum is sold out but a fortunate last-minute cancellation helps me grab a ticket. Making Her Self Up says the large signboard and her eyes meet mine from a vivid.....

Centre needs to stop acting like Robin Hood and move fuel to GST

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Fuel prices have hit all-time highs. Petrol crossed Rs 80 a litre. Diesel hit new records too. Fuel prices are technically supposed to be market driven, linked to international crude prices and foreign exchange rates......

India’s Current Account Deficit – sticking ones head in the sand won’t help

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Rabindranath Tagore – India’s poet laureate’s prescription for healthy thinking was to open the doors and windows. The Union governments did quite the opposite, yesterday when it stuck its head into sand and came up.....

No rocket science, this: The framing of Nambi Narayanan may have involved three conspiracies in one

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On a cold December night in 1994, muffled voices and thuds rent the air at Latex Guest House in Thiruvananthapuram, where a couple of Intelligence Bureau officials were interrogating a leading Indian space scientist accused.....

Lean, mean military? Gen Bipin Rawat calls for plan to modernise army, but this will be a long march

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As his term winds down, army chief Bipin Rawat has discovered the huge agenda he should have known about at the outset – the need to restructure and reform his force. All this while Rawat.....

Various ideologies under a umbrella of democracy

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Azaadi to Bharat Mata, all are here. When a Left candidate surrounded by Right-wing supporters you can see the smile on their faces. They enjoy slogans of different ideologies, that’s why JNUSU is different from other.....

Railways needs to be alive to market dynamics and revisit its flexi-fare scheme

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Indian Railways plans to do away with its flexi – fare scheme in about 40 trains. In the remaining trains where it was introduced, the scheme is to undergo modifications. Flexi – fare was introduced.....

Donald ducks: Facing increasing flak at home, Donny rings up a buddy in India

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Donny: Gee, buddy, after all the flak I’m getting here, it sure is nice to talk to a sympathetic pal. You’re getting flak too, aren’t you, about that demonisation of yours, with people saying how.....

Nun vs Bishop: Police must probe all rape accusations with rigour and secular fairness

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There can be many a slip betwixt strict rape laws and speedy police investigation plus prosecution. In the case of the Kerala nun who has accused Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal of rape, it has been.....

Haryana’s burden of riches

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Today we found the grandfatherly chief minister of Haryana Mohan Lal Khattar smiling at us out of a half-page advertisement, paid for by taxpayers, announcing an “unprecedented decision” of his government. From October 1, 2018.....

Vijay Mallya’s meeting with Arun Jaitley is irrelevant; loopholes in extradition treaties matter

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Two separate developments this week, both of which are related to economic offences, have triggered heated political debate between BJP and Congress. The latest one is a comment made by fugitive Vijay Mallya to the.....

Digital India finds global resonance: Indian talent has supported Silicon Valley, time to build a similar ecosystem at home

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The digital story scripted by India under the visionary Digital India programme – a brainchild of Prime Minister Narendra Modi – has found wide resonance across the globe, as I discovered in my recent travel.....

NRC bogey: Amit Shah’s illegal immigration rhetoric is poll-time gimmick

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In poll-bound Rajasthan, BJP president Amit Shah has once again defended the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam and vowed to expel all Bangladeshi ‘infiltrators’. It will be recalled that the final draft.....

Reclaiming the Right To Love

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Like many others I am delighted by the revocation of Section 377. It was a silly and antiquated, 150-year old law instituted by the British in 1861 modelled after their own Buggery Act of 1533,.....

2019

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Clearly 2019 is weighing on everyone’s mind. Out in our part of the world, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. His Man Friday pooh-poohs the concept of opposition unity. The prospect of opposition.....

‘Kashmiri LGBT movement is nascent … homophobia in Islamic society is more cultural and less religious’

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Though it’s not clear if Supreme Court’s decision to read down parts of Section 377 of IPC will apply to Jammu & Kashmir automatically, Ajaz Ahmed Bund, an LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) activist in.....

Nepal reset: India must be subtler and deliver on projects in its neighbourhood

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Nepal’s decision to pull out of the first joint military drill by member countries of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) stands in sharp contrast to Nepal army’s slated.....

From sales to startups

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B2B Sales Meetup Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend an event entitled B2B Sales & Marketing Tactics for Startups hosted by Stacklist. The purpose of this event was to address the pain point of.....

Supreme Court deserves kudos for outdoing staid netas, but on PILs the track record is mixed

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Justice DY Chandrachud has raised a moot point about the political class while speaking at the National Law University, Dwarka: “Why do politicians sometimes hand over power to judges, and we see that happening in.....

A license to network

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One of the great many things about living and working in Silicon Valley – besides the fact it’s the global tech hub of the world with endless opportunity – is how many amazing people one.....

Should startup entrepreneurs have a coach?

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Business Coaching, is a direct one-on-one interaction between two individuals in a regular and structured conversation. This is done to address and handle business challenges faced by one individual by drawing upon the experience of.....

Life is beautiful: If only we know how to live it even in the darkest of circumstances

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On 7 December 1983 Mikku, our first child – a son – was born. Even though the attending government doctors had given discharge certificate as a normal delivery, the child was declared developmentally disabled by.....

Pleasure is sensual whereas joy is blissful

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Talk: Swami Sukhabodhananda “The Lord of Fullness” is nothing but love. Thought is limited to ‘this’ or ‘that’ object. But love can never be captured by thought. So a brain using the known method of.....

Why these three men staring at an uncertain future are smiling

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I’ve often been accused of not smiling enough. From posing for family albums to selfies, I’ve suffered the ignominy of not looking happy. Then I discovered whiskey. The past year has taught me a great.....

Sitting: Is it hurting you?

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Sitting has been much maligned in the last decade. News sources love to dramatize the issue, and you can find many alarming headlines—such as, “Sitting will kill you, even if you exercise” from CNN in.....

The Maoist agenda and its supporters

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It is clear to any right-minded citizen of India that the Maoist insurgency, which has killed thousands of innocent civilians as well as security personnel, 12,000 in the last 30 years, is a threat to.....

Seize the initiative: Congress position on fuel price presents terrific reform opportunity to Modi government

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Opposition parties have called for a bandh today to protest high retail prices of petrol and diesel. Current price levels, where petrol has breached the Rs 80 per litre mark in many states, are due.....

Aboard the Nostalgia Express

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According to newspaper reports, the railway reservation chart is now history. And for generations of Indians, the meaning of rail travel has been altered. Bit by bit, railway travel as we once knew it is.....

Make in India RIP? Reverse declining export intensity of economic growth and stagnating competitiveness

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India’s balance of payments data for the April-June quarter has sent negative signals. Current account deficit as a proportion of GDP was 2.4%. This was the third quarter since the beginning of 2017-18 when the.....

“There is a genuine issue of illegal immigration in Assam … problem is what is to be done afterwards”

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The recent National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam has excluded 40 lakh people from its final draft list. With confusion and fear growing about the consequences of the process, Sanjoy Hazarika, International Director, Commonwealth.....

Poetic Licence

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Chikankari (Bahoran Tola, Chowk, Lucknow) The needle hurts the cloth into flowers. Outside, winter drops a hint in the air. Inside, the shop-owner drapes the breeze on his shoulder Our eyes are struck into paisleys......

Cry fascism! Modi critics fall back on oldest trick in politics

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The politicised Indian student from a Canadian university who gratuitously heckled a BJP functionary on a flight may well become a hero in circles that view the Narendra Modi dispensation as ‘fascist’. She was quite.....

Change within is the right philosophy

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You have a chance to change the philosophy of your life by the time you end reading this column. It’s a choice to be exercised. Mothers are the best mentors. However, sometimes they do end.....

Comcasa is signed: India success gives US traction for Asia strategy, which must be scaled up to meet Chinese ambition

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The United States and India signed on Thursday the Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (Comcasa) military cooperation deal. The success for Mike Pompeo brought a positive end to a tricky trip to India and Pakistan where.....

How to subdivide OBCs: Government is backing away from social backwardness and moving towards economic criteria

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Economic considerations were, on principle, never factored in when reckoning who deserved caste based reservations. It was important to our lawmakers that this policy not be confused with anti-poverty programmes which operate separately, and under.....

Addressing Awareness on Alzheimer’s

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With as many as four million Indians suffering from some form of dementia, almost half of these are diagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. This number is expected to triple by.....

Not back to school: Students should outdo teachers, instead of humbly walking in their footsteps

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Those are the best years of your life, they say about school. Prove them wrong. Your schooling should be the springboard to grander adventures. Polynomials, rote learning, uniforms, strum this not that, stay in your.....

‘India has the scientific credentials to be a player in space … we need a plan B for survival of the human race’

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The Indian Space Research Organisation is working on a manned space flight, Gaganyaan, which aims to send three humans into space for 5-7 days, with the spacecraft placed in orbit 300-400 km from the Earth’s.....

Mohan Bhagwat shows that consensus is the new way of life in India

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The three-day address by RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat has proved that India has a new social leader after decades, perhaps the first after JP. Three days in a row, people from all walks of life.....

Ordinance route to triple talaq criminalisation might meet BJP’s political ends but could go haywire in implementation

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Criminalising triple talaq through the ordinance route reveals the political importance of this legislation for BJP. With the Bill facing tough questions in Rajya Sabha, government has chosen to push through its own version rather.....

Artist in the orchard: A friendship ripened amidst the chikoos of Gholvad

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Mehlli Gobhai was the ultimate in urbane cool, strolling insouciantly between SoHo galleries and SoBo mansions. How then did i have the temerity to turn him into a rural animal, Rousseau’s ‘noble savage’? This is.....

RSS Glasnost? Mohan Bhagwat turns accommodative even as political Hindutva grows more strident

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The cordial note struck by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat when talking about minorities and the political opposition is welcome relief at a time of extreme polarisation when demagogues find it easier to ratchet up hatred......

Is your child growing normally?

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September is Children’s Growth Awareness Month, worldwide. Some parents are cautious of everything in their child’s life. Some parents trust their Paediatrician blindly. Some parents go by the words of other parents or the elders.....

‘Unesco estimated that India lost 50,000 artefacts till 1989 … our biggest victory has been the narrative war’

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Singapore-based Anuraag Saxena is a founder of India Pride Project (IPP), a group of art enthusiasts who use social media to identify stolen Indian artefacts and secure their return. He explains the project to Aarti Tikoo.....

RCEP as winning strategy: Why India must bring ongoing trade pact negotiations to a speedy conclusion

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The multilateral trade regime which saw trade flourish for seventy years following the Second World War faces an existential threat today. A trade war has broken out between the two largest economies, the United States.....

Six reasons why India struggled against Hong Kong

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In the end, India managed to eke out a face-saving win by 26 runs. Here’s why the game turned out to be a thriller: 1. No late hitting: The middle-order worryingly failed again. India scored.....

BoB’s experience will ensure disinvestment will remain a round-tripping exercise within government

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Equity shares of Bank of Baroda and Dena Bank ended as top losers and top gainers based on price movement on 18th September at Bombay Stock Exchange. BoB’s last traded price was Rs 113.45, down.....

Mohan Bhagwat’s relatively inclusive ideas can frame BJP’s election campaign for 2019; it will rub off on the Opposition too

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In a long speech in New Delhi yesterday, RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat has struck a relatively inclusive position given his organisation’s past legacy. Interestingly, Bhagwat’s attempts at building bridges with the opposition is at variance.....

In convenience: Everyone seems hell bent on making fun chores more strenuous

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There is just too much of convenience around. Take shopping. The fun of this sortie is in selecting every apple, testing the texture of the tomatoes, giving the bananas a gentle squeeze, making sure you.....

New evidence highlights huge gains from cheap policy: What Rajasthan and Andhra must do to curb child malnutrition

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By Bjorn Lomborg and Rajan Sankar Proper early nutrition can spectacularly change the entire life trajectory of a child. We know from long-term studies that it promotes brain development, making the child do better in.....

Much of the BJP’s success is thanks to the ‘base effect’ of the Congress

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In economics there is what’s called the ‘base effect’. If in any given financial year the economy registers a growth of, say, 7 per cent, economists look at the growth figure for the previous year......

The rise of female entrepreneurship?

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Everywhere one travels in the country, one comes across a new breed of female entrepreneurs. They don’t give themselves that label, but in a variety of small ways, entrepreneurship is blossoming at the smallest unit.....

Radha is immortalised at Navadvipa, Mayapur

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By Radhapati Gopinath Das Radha, Krishna’s beloved, is known by many names. Out of their informal and intimate affection, Krishna bhaktas often address Radhika as ‘Barsanevaali’, ‘one who hails from Barsana’. She is also ‘Vrandavaneshwari’,.....

‘Imran Khan shouldn’t even bother … all that we can do on the Indian front is to manage the strategic stalemate’

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With Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan articulating a ‘Naya Pakistan’ vision, observers of that country are working to deduce the consequences. In his new book, Pakistan Adrift, former ISI chief Lieutenant-General Asad Durrani delves into the.....

An unbelievable ‘gag Ganesh’ government order to infuriate Hindus

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While influential and die-hard Hindus rejoice the fact that Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated in Ghana and many such distant places around the world, back home, a gag order in a predominately Hindu majority state imposes.....

Wanted: Next-gen netas like Khalid and Kanhaiya

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A few days ago we marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Gauri Lankesh. I knew her and thought I should write about a few other people whom you will have heard of but.....

Time management for the self

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I meet so many women who are eternally exhausted juggling multiple roles. Women pride themselves on their multitasking abilities, however, it often leads to either a job half done, compromised, or with little time for.....

Serena’s meltdown on court reinforces the worst mommyhood stereotypes

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This is the kind of story that demands taking a position. It is difficult to stay ‘neutral’ about the Serena Williams’ meltdown at the US Open and shrug philosophically, “It happens.” Suddenly, all those ugly.....

Parliamentary Supermacy and Judicial Review: Indian Perspective

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The Judiciary, Legislature and Executive are the three pillars on which the effective functioning of the Government rests. A balance as opposed to conflicts is very necessary to achieve the ultimate public welfare and smooth.....

That beautiful spa is so close to you

6 days ago

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By Sant Rajinder Singh When we want to go on a retreat to relax, many of us choose to spend time at a spa. Spas are designed to relax the body and mind. The word.....

Patriarchy kills: Suicide data tells it like it is

6 days ago

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A study published in The Lancet this week highlights gender differentials in suicide deaths in India, whereby in 2016 the country accounted for 18% of the global population but 37% of suicides among women and.....

India and Sweden’s soft power advantage

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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” is a well-known phrase initially used by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong. Nine decades after its first use, it has now become a cliché. Political.....

Entrepreneurs Roundtable 122

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Roundtable 122 Today’s excursions led me to ERA’s (Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator) monthly community meetup entitled Entrepreneurs Roundtable 122. The event series has been in existence since 2008. The envisioned goal is to help NYC’s startup.....

Rahul’s Mansarovar Yatra: Why attacks on Congress chief for undertaking the pilgrimage are unwarranted

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s Mansarovar Yatra has triggered a political battle between BJP and his party. It is yet another example of the growing importance of religion in Indian politics that the major political parties.....

September blues: 9/11 and financial crisis unleashed popular anger, but if we lose perspective things will worsen

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On 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy protection in US, a watershed moment in a global financial crisis whose impact spilled over into politics and changed the world. A decade later we.....

Bolton’s Tirade Against ICC: American NSA again exposes his country’s so-called commitment to multilateralism

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US national security adviser John Bolton’s latest tirade against the international Criminal Court (ICC) not only reaffirms the Donald Trump administration’s determination to project America First, but also exposes the US’s so-called championing of multilateralism......