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What Delhi must do to rescue the Yamuna

What Delhi must do to rescue the Yamuna

Restoring its health will need correcting planning and execution flaws and pushing forward with circulatory water management.

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Mind the Gap: The Great Return

Feminist economists have a neat phrase for what is an everyday life for far too many women around the world.

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Namita Bhandare

Upgrading the plumbing of India’s administration

Upgrading the plumbing of India’s administration

One way to build expertise in governance would be to break up the IAS into two divisions — a field division and a policy analysis division

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Pramit Bhattacharya

All-weather friend, major trade partner

All-weather friend, major trade partner

Over the past 10 years, Mauritius has become a cornerstone of India’s maritime strategy that straddles the security, economic and ecological...

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Pankaj Saran

New income tax Bill is a piece of bold reform

New income tax Bill is a piece of bold reform

The New Income Tax Bill, 2025, aims to achieve what the government has termed the “5Cs” — consolidation, clarity, continuity, certainty, and...

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Old world order is dying, emerging picture is scary

Old world order is dying, emerging picture is scary

Zelensky’s conflict with Russia, amid changing US policies, echoes past betrayals, raising concerns over global stability and future conflicts.

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Shashi Shekhar

Securing the lives of Indian expat workers

Securing the lives of Indian expat workers

The Indian government must improve its consular services to ensure timely intervention in cases involving Indian nationals abroad

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Rejimon Kuttappan

Women at forest frontline break stereotypes, barriers

Women at forest frontline break stereotypes, barriers

Kaziranga’s women foresters ensured safe passage of its animals and undertook rescue and release of stranded one during the devastating 2024 floods

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Congress party and its Tharoor dilemma

Congress party and its Tharoor dilemma

Shashi is not a conventional politician. He does not operate in cabals and coteries. Congress leaders, on the other hand, have flourished through...

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Karan Thapar

Decolonisation without searching for the ‘other’

Decolonisation without searching for the ‘other’

Today, it is clear that the model of development crafted in the West, and adopted worldwide, has plunged all living systems into unprecedented crisis

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Rajni Bakshi

Tremors in Washington, aftershocks in New Delhi

Tremors in Washington, aftershocks in New Delhi

DOGE’s dismantling of the American State has significant costs for the US and will resonate beyond national borders. India too should brace for the...

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Milan Vaishnav

Book Box: The Feminist Library Every Home Needs

Book Box: The Feminist Library Every Home Needs

A mother's heartfelt letter to her daughter encourages building a feminist library, emphasising the power of books in challenging societal norms.

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Sonya Dutta Choudhury

From women’s development to women-led development

From women’s development to women-led development

Even as India’s women are leading in fields such as business and medicine, millions of women at the country’s grassroots are being empowered

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Blueprint for becoming a global knowledge power

Blueprint for becoming a global knowledge power

For Make in India to work, marry it to Invent in India. To that end, India should step up its R&D spending by 1% of GDP over the next decade

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Ashish Dhawan

Reaffirm the federal pact

Reaffirm the federal pact

Tamil Nadu's CM Stalin led a meeting of 35 parties, excluding BJP, demanding a 30-year status quo on Lok Sabha seats amid fears of political...

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Anora an exposition of unyielding class divide

Anora an exposition of unyielding class divide

The Oscar Best Picture this year is a carefully crafted depiction of the deeper class tensions of American society

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Damodar Prasad

Laying the digital path to a developed India

Laying the digital path to a developed India

A tech renaissance driven by Artificial Intelligence is fuelling the journey of Viksit Bharat

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What is to be done when the markets keep falling

What is to be done when the markets keep falling

Your portfolio tells a story. If the bleed is less than the market average, it’s a good story, else you need to read this

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Taking a stand against centralisation of policy

Taking a stand against centralisation of policy

India is an unparalleled experiment in pluralism, and imposing unity through excessive uniformity is not only counterproductive but potentially...

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