WB warning on stunted children should worry India
By Prachi Salve The reason I am pushing so hard on stunting is because we have spent a lot of time looking at possible paths of economic development in developing countries. It is my suggestion…
Opinion
A radical religiosity’s results – learning the hard way
By Vikas Datta Title: Jihadi Jane; Author: Tabish Khair; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 248; Price: Rs 299 We need someone to update American thinker William James’s “The Varieties of Religious Experience” to explain…
Brexit: Britons deserve better political leadership
By Hardeep S. Puri There are many deeply worrisome aspects of the Brexit, one particularly so. There are fault-lines in the functioning of democracies not only in the United Kingdom but elsewhere as well. Democracies…
Education could be game changer for India-Australia ties
By Amit Dasgupta The platform for a transformational change in bilateral relations was laid when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia in November 2014. Deviating from script, he spoke of India-Australia relations as “a natural…
Powerless against genocide: Frustration of a UN peackeeper
By Vikas Datta Mid-July marks the 22nd anniversary of the belated end of the Rwandan genocide – one of the worst mass slaughters in modern times with at least 800,000 people brutally killed in 100…
For Modi, its ‘Focus Uttar Pradesh’
By Amulya Ganguli A day before Ram Shankar Katheria was sacked the Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD), he had said that there was nothing wrong with the saffronization of education. He was…
UP, Bihar, Rajasthan: Worst states for women, J&K catching up
By Devanik Saha Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators and demographic data of Indian states reveals. Women in these states are among those who…
UP, Bihar, Rajasthan: Worst states for women, J&K catching up
By Devanik Saha Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators and demographic data of Indian states reveals. Women in these states are among those who…
Individual hackings and terror attacks in Bangladesh: A Whodunnit
By Saeed Naqvi Before we dwell on Bangladeshs current travails, the good news. It is the only double distilled entity to emerge from Partition. Armed with Bengali nationalism, it shuffled itself out of the Islamic…
Indian kitchens demand oil; production declines, imports soar
By Sukanya Bhattacharyya Pushed by the rising use of oil as a medium for cooking in rural areas and the falling production of oilseeds, Indias edible oil imports more than doubled in the decade to…
New Nationalism in India: A boon or a bane?
By Vikas Datta Title: On Nationalism; Author: Romila Thapar, A.G. Noorani, Sadanand Menon; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 176; Price: Rs 399 It inspired the Indian subcontinent’s people to deem themselves one political entity, fight…
HAL must be modernised, if Tejas are to be saved
By Admiral Arun Prakash (retd) If the recent induction of the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has received a muted welcome from the IAF, there are very good reasons for it. While the nation…
Modi’s message: Don’t take me for granted or mess with me
By Sanjeev Srivastava I can’t even remember when a Prime Minister sent a message so loud and clear through an exercise that is his sole prerogative: Cabinet reshuffle. Of course, Manmohan Singh never had the…
Data: What India needs to end malnutrition by 2030
By Lawrence Haddad It may seem like a no-brainer to say that we need data to guide efforts to end malnutrition. Would you run an economy without a regular stream of credible data? You’d be…
In ministry expansion, Modi hits two UP birds with one stone
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, July 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit two birds with one stone in Tuesday’s ministry expansion, as far as Uttar Pradesh is concerned. On the one hand by dropping Minister…
900 mn Indians live in 2 rooms or less
By Abhishek Waghmare For 10 years, Degal Srimangar Sao, 26, has been sleeping in the corridor of a central Mumbai commercial complex, where he delivers tea every two hours to busy corporate employees. Vijay, as…
Make in India also requires Move in India push
By Amit Kapoor Logistics forms the backbone of domestic and international trade in any economy and is a critical factor for competitiveness. Besides providing employment and movement of goods, an efficient logistical network enables increases…
The 20th Century Mona Lisa: Gina Lollobrigida and her films
By Vikas Datta With her large, limpid brown eyes, statuesque figure, seductively deep voice, she was one of the world’s best-known actresses and sex symbols in the 1950s and 1960s – but Gina Lollobrigida, who…
Why crime is rising against India’s lowest castes and tribes
By Himadri Ghosh In the prosperous district of Kannur in one of Indias most prosperous states, Kerala, Eramangalathu Chitralekha, 39, was the first Dalit woman to drive an autorickshaw in 2005. Her new profession immediately…
Made-in-India Tejas: Historic landmark for aerospace industry
By Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd) On July 1, 2016, No.45 Squadron of the Indian Air Force (IAF) became the proud recipient of Indias first indigenous 4th generation fighter; the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) dubbed Tejas….