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Two contradictory forces: On the one hand, the rich are getting richer, and, on the other, the craze for...
Two contradictory forces: On the one hand, the rich are getting richer, and, on the other, the craze for...
With the role of the state expanding, the judiciary finds its powers not clearly delineated. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up....
Brand SRK is a much bandied about term. But what are its coordinates? More importantly, how does it connect with...
Shah Rukh Khan doesn’t know it, but he watches over me. A Swades poster hangs in my living room, a...
In one of my worst fears, I—a part-time stand-up comedian—am jailed full-time for a joke, while influential people from the...
Matisse painting. My farewell gift to ‘Shah sir’—that’s what everyone on set called him, although I never quite figured how...
“There are no innocent bystanders...what are they doing there in the first place?” – Exterminator!, William S. Burroughs Everything coincided,...
Marking the transition between old and new India, SRK’s characters and his stardom represent Bollywood as simultaneously Indian and global....
Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday. The government’s approval of the full privatisation of...
Activism need not be restricted to companies. It can be at global level also. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up: ...
Wait for some policy reorientation after the climate summit in Glasgow. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up. Mahesh Vyas says employment...
The Washington Consensus is on its way out. In a report released recently, the G7 Economic Resilience Panel...
It is now time to ponder whether digitisation can improve corporate governance. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up: Tamal Bandyopadhyay describes...
Buoyant hopes of economic revival – soaring stock markets, booming exports, surging tax collections, falling inflation – and much...
Can Gati Shakti, the prime minister’s latest big-bang masterplan for infrastructure and connectivity, succeed? The pro-business and pro-investment rhetoric...
The crisis of coal supply for the power sector has highlighted a broader issue that the government needs to...
Two very newsworthy happenings over the last week, linked to celebrity endorsements, have opened up a very interesting...
Data on state budgets is patchy and irregular yet given that they collectively outspend the Centre, such information is...
Economic choices are more about the present, into which politics always does not fit. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up. T...
Since the growth process is being questioned, efficiency requires a re-definition. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up: ...
Voltaire defined tolerance as “the consequence of humanity” and described the individual who persecuted another person because of differing opinion...
At an international conference of children’s storytelling, a puppeteer from India was stopped from telling the story of Ganesha’s birth...
Three women from our sacred literature have always stood out: the beautiful pativrata Sita; the fiery, vengeful Draupadi, who engendered...
“This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their...
Memories co-exist differently and become different stories in their retelling; time marches on, in the meanwhile, leaving a trail of...
Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India...
Moves are afoot to replace or at least greatly weaken Kristalina Georgieva, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director...
Minister Narendra Modi’s recent trip to the United States should reassure India of the depth of its ties with America....
Part of the National Monetisation Pipeline could be spliced with privatising Air India and augmenting water resources. Uddalok Bhattacharya...
The hope that rural India holds out can be transient in the face of climate adversities. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums...
Some broadening out is happening. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up. Mihir S Sharma: If the Quad was a military-first enterprise,...
The past week saw China dominate the headlines in two ways -- one economic, the other geopolitical -- that...
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference is expected to set the future agenda for countries to avert a...
It is no secret that Delhi’s air pollution is the most talked about in India and around the world. In...
“The police force is far from efficient; it is defective in training and organisation; it is inadequately supervised; it is...
The debate on the caste census must be rescued from the immediacy of electoral pragmatics and party passions and relaunched...
This has happened before, this will happen againWhat does that fire remember? The screams of satisdragged to their husband’s pyres...
Other Backward Classes (OBCs) comprise the biggest block of Indian society in terms of numbers. Barring the Northeast and a...
When former British PM Harold Wilson said “a week is a long time in politics”, he might have had Maharashtra...
There is an unnoticed domestic policy paradox in Narendra Modi’s second term. Initiatives aimed at helping India Inc –...
Virat Kohli has made two big announcements on social media in the last four days that has taken the cricketing...
After a long lull, there has been a modest recovery in projects ‘under implementation’ in private investment in the...
Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday. There is a simple way to explain the...
Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday. The Union Cabinet has decided on a major...
I would strongly advise students not take institutional rankings as the absolute criterion of their choice of where to study....
To ask what future the humanities—variously called ‘arts’ and sometimes even ‘social sciences’ in India—have in our country is also...
Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday. The Union Cabinet’s decisions on Wednesday are vital...
Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Wednesday. The government’s reluctance to file a simple affidavit...
Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday. There is considerable distress within India’s labour force....
The Taliban is certainly having the last laugh. As if to add salt to the wound, their government in Kabul...
The central bank says regulation should stay ahead of technology. It should lay stress on the human interface. Uddalok...
The first wave of the Convid-19 pandemic began sweeping through India in early 2020, forcing schools and higher education institutions...
Covid-19 has dominated the lives of every human on the planet since March, 2020. Unprecedented measures have been taken by various...
Children question their parents or teachers less – they ask their devices. They get their answers from the unimaginably vast,...