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The rivalry between the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech became open knowledge after the heads of both took veiled digs at each other...
“Hair is everything….” states a visibly affronted Fleabag to Anthony, a hairdresser, in the award-winning series Fleabag (2019). This scene has...
THE YEAR 1995-96 was the Republic’s year of ghotalas. Coinciding with P V Narasimha Rao’s last year in office, the period saw a number of scams...
“‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English);” That’s...
With his flair for melodrama, Narendra Modi personally launched the nationwide vaccination drive against Covid last week. The vaccines have been...
In an unprecedented step, India will not print the annual budget documents as has been the case since the first budget was presented on November...
How long will the immunity conferred by the COVID-19 vaccine last? Will the immune response be strong in all persons who receive it? These are...
Recent reports suggest that the upcoming budget may include proposals for a Bank Investment Company (BIC), anchoring the government’s shareholding...
The recent litigations against Scihub and Libgen by Elsevier, Wiley and ACS bring us to a moment of many realisations about control and governance...
It is almost a year since the virus first appeared outside of China. There have been several false alarms about the end of the virus; it is still...
On January 11, Robin Niblett, Director and Chief Executive of Chatham House, the century-old UK-based policy institute also known as the Royal...
In the seven years of mediocre governance marked by institutional capture, propaganda politics, unprecedented economic mismanagement and...
The Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the largest employers in the country after agriculture. The labour intensive sector employs...
On January 6, the world watched in shock as extremists stormed the United States Capitol to interrupt the Congress’s joint session which was...
While deprecating the separation of “a place from its history”, novelist Alan Moore rightly said: “A place is much more than the bricks and...
I have two distinct memories from a 2009 meeting with Ved Mehta, who passed away earlier this week. The first is of Mehta speaking about why he...
A good policy must fulfil four criteria — it must have clarity in objectives, strategic design, financing and outcomes, all in sync. For example,...
The fight against COVID-19 is possibly entering its final stages, with the Prime Minister announcing the kick-off of the vaccination drive from...
The first advance estimates of GDP for 2020-21 are much better than the earlier market consensus and shows the inherent strengths of the Indian...
Madhavsinh Solanki was a thinking politician. In his early years, he was an associate of a group of Royist intellectuals — followers of M N Roy —...
It is extraordinary that in his seminal book, On China published in 2011, former US National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State, Henry...