Flying kites
The Government may be testing waters with silly proposals. But this points to a lack of creativity in policy-making The bureaucrat, who thought about the preposterous suggestion to limit duty-free alcohol purchases to a single bottle, will one day head the entire department. And that frankly is more worrying than the...
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Let religion lead to peace, prosperity
21 January 2020 | Eduardo Faleiro -
BJP’s new chief
21 January 2020 | Pioneer -
Centre must not lose the vision
21 January 2020 | Amit kumar -
A new lurking danger
21 January 2020 | Sandhya Jain -
Social experiment gone awry
21 January 2020 | Prasenjit Biswas -
The thin red line in Pak-Iran relations
20 January 2020 | Nadeem Paracha -
Modi needs to make a decision
20 January 2020 | Javvadi Rao
Decoding the future of jobs
India is facing a unique challenge owing to new job opportunities, reduced employability due to archaic education, changes in the workplace and poor learning capabilities caused by malnutrition Goal 8 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals looks at decent work and economic growth. One offshoot of this should be an improvement...
No surprises here
Both the BJP and AAP candidate lists play safe with expected names and reward turncoats With the gong being struck for a three-cornered electoral contest in Delhi, the two top contenders — the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — have had a tough task drawing up...
Maximum city, again
Shops, malls and eateries will remain open 24X7 in Mumbai from January 26. Will this rebrand the city? For some time, besieged by infrastructural breakdowns and carrying the weight of history, Mumbai had lost its swanky flavour and standing as the first among metros. Newer cities and the Tier II explosion...
The hand that rocks
Women across the world are challenging the authoritarian politics of the times by leading mass grassroots movements and civil uprisings It is just another Sunday evening in Delhi, the howling cold forcing people indoors for comfort and wrapping up their energies for the week ahead. Yet in an old warehouse in...
Govt must let Shaheen Bagh protest peter out
Till a month ago, and despite having lived in the national Capital for decades, I had no idea where Shaheen Bagh was. Even now I have only the haziest of idea where it is situated. Yet, legend has it that Shaheen Bagh is the epicentre of a mass revolt that...
And the trend continues...
If the past fortnight was any indication we can predict rather confidently that this year may well be as turbulent as the previous one. Looking back, in 2019, we saw economies in turmoil, polities in turmoil, and countries in turmoil. BBC commented that 2019 was the year in which popular...
Bezos’ bummer trip
From getting a Gandhi quote wrong to drawing the ire of the BJP, the Amazon CEO’s latest trip didn’t go that well In terms of disastrous visits to India, Amazon’s Chief Executive Jeffery Bezos’s latest trip wasn’t quite up there. No, it will take a lot more to top the stupendous...
