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Redrawing priorities
26 Dec 2020 11:13 PM ISTIn a year of changes and compromises, nations too have been forced to recognise the folly of neglecting health security as a part of national security...
A wake-up call
7 Nov 2020 11:25 PM ISTThe ongoing and contentious election in Myanmar have once again spotlighted the nation’s deeply problematic citizenship laws which have rendered many...
Farm Acts 2020 : What awaits us
10 Oct 2020 10:21 PM ISTControversial farm bills that have been recently passed by the Parliament discount the role of the elected governments in agri-economics — creating...
Diagnosing an ailing economy
19 Sept 2020 10:23 PM ISTAlready unsteady before the pandemic, the Indian Economy is now facing one of its greatest crises — the full impact of which is as yet unknown
Left out in the storm
30 May 2020 10:48 PM ISTWith the Centre vehemently refusing to acknowledge the scale of devastation left behind by Cyclone Amphan on a pandemic struck and cash strapped West...
Bengal fights Coronavirus
23 May 2020 11:33 PM ISTA graded assessment of West Bengal’s bitter struggle to contain the COVID-19 as various factors threaten to complicate such efforts
Removing roadblocks
14 Feb 2020 10:18 PM ISTCentre’s current policy for determining central tax share of states ends up penalising small but economically prosperous states like Bengal and must...
Back from the brink
2 Feb 2020 8:08 PM ISTIndia’s top-heavy economic structure must be course-corrected with drastic reforms or risk crumbling away
Route to North-East
19 Dec 2019 9:51 PM ISTHistory corroborates the notion that cordial relations with Bangladesh and Bengal are a prerequisite for sound economic development of the landlocked...
The tale of coal cess
5 Dec 2019 10:09 PM ISTCuriosity lingers over the unused coal cess earmarked to fund clean energy projects
India: Internal Colonialism
21 Oct 2019 8:57 PM IST‘Internal colonialism’ is a broadly defined term that captures the complexities of structural, political and economic inequalities between regions...
North-East: Another Kashmir
9 March 2019 11:51 PM ISTUnless people themselves realise that victims of the 1947 partition are not ‘termites’, India’s North-East runs the risk of becoming a war zone –...