The world is fat and slow: How the populist backlash to globalisation fuels more inequality

The United States’ recovery from the Great Recession recently turned 10 years old, matching the longest American expansion since records were...

Amit Shah-Nama

The ascent of Amit Shah, India’s Home Minister, throws up several intriguing possibilities. The comparison with LK Advani is hard to miss. Advani...

Democracy and tyranny: There is an intimate connection between the two seemingly opposed concepts

Although they appear as polar opposites, there is, or at least was, an intimate connection between democracy and tyranny, one which also troubled...

What the Congress must do to ensure its revival

The 2019 results have brought back the 2014 crisis facing the Indian National Congress with an added complexity. It has a simple reason. The party...

Chennai’s water crisis is largely a man-made problem

It not uncommon to come across newspaper headlines which highlight a water crisis in Chennai. This year however the intensity of the crisis appears...

As the mother of a junior resident doctor, I’m worried

Last week at Kolkata’s Nil Ratan Sarkar (NRS) hospital, relatives of a dead man turned their rage on a junior doctor. Dr Paribaha Mukhopadhyay...

The cities of my memories

I grew up in the Kolkata of the seventies and eighties. The Calcutta of my memories did not have the snazzy flyovers of New Town or the brightly...

Real-estate company SOBHA wins 'National Brand Leadership of Indian Retail' title for the fifth consecutive year

Track2Reality’s study BrandXReport has named SOBHA as the top national realty brand across asset class in India with an overall brand score of 82...

Greener energy may mean slower growth

In future, as the world works to protect the climate by turning to low-carbon fuel sources, lower economic growth may be an unwanted consequence...

Why the new Modi Model is the old Gujarat Model with 3 super-bureaucrats

The Modi-Shah-BJP establishment has an aversion to anyone but the faithful using the expression ‘Gujarat Model’ to characterise their methods. We...

India looks East in Modi’s 2nd term

Theology of Presence

Amir Suhail Wani “O you who believe! Remember Allah With much remembrance”: Al Quran To believe is to be in a state of presence. Presence, though...

Kathua verdict: fact, fable and fiction

Shabbir Aariz                                    Finally some relief has been accorded to the family of the victim,...

Discover the entrepreneurial zeal of India’s youngest state, Telangana, at the 2nd edition of State Stories – an initiative by YourStory and Zoho

Since achieving statehood in June 2014, India’s youngest state, Telangana has been on a path of rapid development.

Dispelling falsehoods about GM crops

What India can learn from the Philippines, which set up a Biotech Program Office in 2000 to promote the responsible use of agri-biotechnology to...

Arts graduate? The fourth industrial revolution is looking for you

The cybersecurity industry is facing a jobs crisis. According to recent estimates, India alone requires an additional two million cybersecurity...

In NDA bloc, JD(U) sets terms of engagement

In a coalition where the lead party has an overwhelming majority, junior stakeholders are loath to subsuming their entity to the bigger partner. Of...

US's Legacy of Using Trade Act to Steer Course of International Relations

August 15, 1971, could not have been yet another Independence Day for India. Twenty four years from the day since the country won its freedom from...