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Chhattisgarh’s stray cattle problem is enormous. While cattle shelters may prove useful in the interim, a long-term plan to make livestock economically viable…
▶19-Feb-2025
Given the high degree of informality in the Indian economy, national employment surveys have drawn up complex instructions to capture all those who work. This…
▶10-Feb-2025
Gaza ceasefire is only 'first step' as Palestinians confront magnitude of reconstruction challenge.
▶24-Jan-2025
The persistence of silicosis puts at risk India's aims to eliminate tuberculosis this year. The great tragedy is that it is easily preventable.
▶21-Jan-2025
Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.
▶11-Feb-2025
Propaganda films in India which project the viewpoint of the current ruling dispensation are here to stay. In the coming years, they are likely to become even…
▶10-Dec-2024
A tribute to IG Patel, once Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and many other things: senior official in the Ministry of Finance, official in the IMF and…
▶28-Nov-2024
Dibru Saikhowa in Assam is home to a population of feral horses, whose origin is not clear. This small group is under threat from floods and competition with…
▶18-Nov-2024
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Letters
More on AK Bagchi
Achin Chakraborty has written a splendid article about Amiya Kumar Bagchi from his vantage point of a chair and earlier as Director of the Institute of…
▶16-Dec-2024
Kumaraswamy Velupillai
Health Insurance is No Solution
It is refreshing to learn that our present so-called insurance cover maybe the easiest to proide but most ineffective way of giving the necessary health…
▶04-Dec-2024
Srinivasan N.Iyer
Corrections
Dr. Ashok Desai has written a warm and endearing tribute to Dr IG Patel on his centenary, which unfortunately went unnoticed in the mainstream media. He…
▶28-Nov-2024
G. Sreekumar, Thiruvananthapuram
In response to Dalrymple
I am truly grateful to William Dalrymple for responding (above) to my review of his book.
In my reading of the (full) book, the impressions I came home with…
▶20-Nov-2024
Kiran Kumbhar
NITI Aayog has Failed. India Needs a New Institutional Compact, How Hinduism Dealt with British Colonialism, Punishing Universities by Interfering with VC Appointments, and more
Strengthening India's health system, Global climate action at COP29, Gandhi's intimate friend, and more
Redesigning Reservations: How Heterogeneous are the Scheduled Castes?, Feminisation of Public Employment in India, The Split that Forged an Alliance, and more
Where did Covid come from?, Motherhood and working women, Nuclear isn't the solution, and much more