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Burning bright
6 Jan 2022 7:59 PM ISTDespite the global push towards renewables, coal — being a convenient, cost-effective, ‘democratic’ and ‘decentralised’ fuel — remains a critical...
Required repurposing
30 Dec 2021 9:54 PM ISTIndia needs to modify its farm subsidies for ensuring income support to farmers and securing the country’s food market from cheaper imports
With lasting ramifications
25 Dec 2021 10:55 PM ISTThe four labour codes introduced by the government are highly exclusionary and further widen the productivity-real wage gap — favouring employers...
Misplaced priorities
23 Dec 2021 8:45 PM ISTEven as developed world moves away from nuclear power, countries like China and India are failing to recognise the threats posed by the sector
Handling water footprints
9 Dec 2021 7:27 PM ISTAs an imminent water crisis haunts the world, India should make no delay in chalking out a long-term policy for managing its water resources
Watershed moment
25 Nov 2021 8:11 PM ISTIndian agriculture appears to have grabbed the mainstream, and requires scientific choices on subsidies to avoid the fallouts it faced post-Green...
Flawed pathway?
18 Nov 2021 9:30 PM ISTRepeated failure of UNFCCC in realising its goals, and subsequent creation of a ‘weaponising’ climate economy, calls for establishment of an...
An ugly dichotomy
30 Oct 2021 10:39 PM ISTIndia should take a leading stand against the emergence of climate economy which has led to the dumping of polluting industries towards the global...
Emergence of an oligarchic state?
25 Sept 2021 11:45 PM ISTNMP, possibly aimed at financing the NIP, reminds of the Russian experience where a handful of businessmen went on to control the national resources
Urgent overhaul
29 Aug 2021 12:07 AM ISTIndia’s strategically important manufacturing sector — once grounded in the rich heritage of Shudras — now dwindles on account of systematic uprooting...
Give peace a chance
10 July 2021 10:00 PM ISTAs China can neither be overlooked nor be tackled, India should look for a positive engagement, drifting away from the treacherous West towards the...
A dichotomy of sustenance
19 Jun 2021 9:50 PM ISTIndia has two options to offset the adversities inflicted by the Green Revolution — a corporate-powered centralised system leading to dual production...