By M. Rajaque Rahman, It does crush the pride of a nation to find itself ranked as low as 133rd in a global ranking of happiness. While it's debatable whether something as subtle as happiness can be plotted on the basis of gross factors such as income and life...
By Amit Kapoor, The 180 km-long march of Maharashtra's farmers from Nashik to Mumbai that swelled to about 40,000 in number by the time it reached the state capital is a potent reminder of the burgeoning problem of agrarian distress in India. It is also indicative of...
By Frank Islam, Stick ’em up! That’s what the NRA continues to say as it holds the United States of America hostage with the Second Amendment as its gun. The NRA is embracing the one right that it recognizes as sacrosanct and elevating it above all others. By doing...
By Vikas Datta, News is rather ephemeral. Since it has most effect -- in these times -- when on TV, we may paraphase Shakespeare's Macbeth to term it something "full of sound and fury" but soon forgotten due to our limited memory and the sheer volume of...
By Amulya Ganguli, If one explanation has to be given for the BJP's electoral ills in the Hindi heartland and nearby states, it is arrogance. Even more than the Narendra Modi government's failures on the employment and agricultural fronts, it is the party's and the...
By Kota Neelima, Farmer suicides have been taking place across India for years now, and studies of rural distress reveal the deeply-rooted, tenacious causes, such as lack of irrigation, fragmentation of land, unsuitability of seeds and inadequate sources of credit....
By Frank F. Islam, On Sunday, January 7, the New York Times ran a front page story titled "Rising Anxiety in India is Piercing Modi's Aura of Invincibility". The article discussed the decline in GDP, consumption and consumer confidence and its impact on India and...
By Taponeel Mukherjee, With its rapidly-growing economy, the fact that India needs significant investments in airport infrastructure cannot be overemphasised. While Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and privatisation of airports have been attempted to some extent,...
By Arnav Joshi, While much of the world is busy worrying about losing jobs to automation in the future (and this is overstated), what has crept past for over a decade is that automated systems (to most, Artificial Intelligence, or AI) already play a major role in...
By Amit Kapoor, India is now into the fifth year of its unique experiment of legally binding companies to be socially responsible. This push by the government to solve the country's most challenging social problems was based on the idea that the corporate sector will...