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No end to imagination
8 April 2022 2:00 PM GMTThe IMF executive director has just declared that India was nearly free of extreme poverty in 2020 and inequality was the lowest in 40 years
Beneficiaries or right-holders?
9 March 2022 1:40 PM GMTBasic facilities like housing, drinking water etc. are unalienable rights of individuals; should these be treated as benefits ‘provided’ by a...
Pursuit of a grand vision
31 Jan 2022 1:14 PM GMTWe still have an incredibly great distance to cover for realising the vision of ‘new India’ by the 75th Independence Day
A generation interrupted
4 Jan 2022 2:59 PM GMTChildren born under the grim shadow of the pandemic might present the next development challenge for the world
Nations' own natural wealth
11 Nov 2021 2:43 PM GMTDeveloping nations are within their right to consume domestic natural resources for sustenance and development, even if it reaches unsustainable...
Flowing for water
7 Sep 2021 2:26 PM GMTLow availability of water, coupled with livelihood prospect, remains a prominent reason for people from distressed regions migrating to Delhi
Deep economic paralysis?
10 Jun 2021 1:09 PM GMTAmid the second wave of the pandemic, India enters into a situation that currently looks unimaginably distressed
A vicious cycle
25 April 2021 1:48 PM GMTIn face of high food insecurity with COVID-19 resurging, many across the country are cutting back on critical food items
Bloom of the billionaires
5 March 2021 4:32 PM GMTEven without an exception in a year of pandemic, the world’s leading billionaires added over one trillion dollars to their collective wealth
A heavy cost
26 Jan 2021 4:27 PM GMTHastened by the pandemic, the inevitable automation of the global workforce threatens to further widen the development distribution gaps in India’s...
Image shift
23 Jan 2020 3:13 PM GMTStakeholder capitalism may become a buzzword but can it deliver on its promise?
Decoding food inflation
15 Jan 2020 4:17 PM GMTWith retail inflation hitting double-digits, onions are being made to take the brunt of the blame but is it actually a fair assessment?