Category: Commentary

Jaitley’s $13 bn water plan has failed 66 mn farmers

By Abhishek Waghmare A two-decade-old central programme to finish incomplete irrigation projects has failed some 66 million Indian farmers and…

9 years ago

Budget 2016: Will it meet people’s aspirations?

By Amit Dasgupta Ever since then finance minister Shan Mukhan Chitty presented India's first budget in 1947, the event has…

9 years ago

Oppression by technology: The author who predicted today’s nightmares

By Vikas Datta A long-running Indian TV game show about a group of disparate people consciously living under the continuous…

9 years ago

BJP is far from winning the ideological war

By Amulya Ganguli On the day Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed the BJP had won the ideological war in the…

9 years ago

Ram Advani’s bookshop represented his adoration for Lucknow

By Saeed Naqvi An Urdu aristocracy on its knees, was beginning to make adjustments with the new British rulers when…

9 years ago

Groundwater levels plunge, contamination rises, crisis grows

Sandeep Pai & Prathamesh Mulye Kolhapur/Delhi: Five years ago, when Ramakant Desai, 55, hired a drilling rig to sink a…

9 years ago

Indian condiments are spicing up global cuisine

By Sunil Soni The use of Indian condiments, or masalas as one would call in Hindustani, is increasingly becoming popular…

9 years ago

Digital inequality warning sounded for urban India

By Devanik Saha Recent indications that India's Internet use is low and not reflected in the numbers of mobile phone…

9 years ago

Email copyright holder, Ayyadurai is legitimate father of messaging system

By Arvind Gupta and Prasanto K. Roy The world has been talking about email this week, after the death of…

9 years ago

Do a hundred authors catch the essence of Hillary Clinton?

By Vikas Datta Is she a consummate, capable stateswoman ready for the most powerful job in the world, or a…

9 years ago

Kanhaiya may prove to be dangerous opponent of BJP

By Amulya Ganguli A pattern appears to have evolved in parliament with Rahul Gandhi sticking to his post-sabbatical practice of…

9 years ago

Get even with gout

By Amar Chandel Gout is today the most common inflammatory arthritis in men and older women. This excruciatingly painful condition…

9 years ago

Kanhaiya windfall only for CPI or all Left?

By Saeed Naqvi Kanhaiya Kumar’s genius as a public speaker is self evident from his first speech in JNU on…

9 years ago

Budget sets path for reformed realty, inclusive housing

By Vinod Behl Much on expected lines, though this year's budget does not unveil any big bang measures to give…

9 years ago

Can budget bridge India’s vocational training gap

By Chaitanya Mallapur There is a shortage of 100,000 trainers for implementing skill-development programmes across the country. The question is:…

9 years ago

52 mn Indians may have to depend on rural job plan for 20 years

By Prachi Salve and Saumya Tewari With a 14-percent rise in funding for the programme run under the Mahatma Gandhi…

9 years ago

Why Make in India is stumbling over our labour laws

By Abhik Ghosh What's the one assurance investors want before setting up manufacturing base in India? The ease of making…

9 years ago

Lucknow’s long-forgotten ‘beloved’ poet

By Vikas Datta If we compare poetry to a landscape, it would be one that is constantly but gradually evolving…

9 years ago

Why ministers for happiness, tolerance, youth, future in UAE

By Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Over the past two weeks, I have heard and read many questions, comments, and…

9 years ago



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