CMs should stop dragging their feet on school opening
Not only must re-opening schools be a top priority, we need a well thought out strategy to help students make
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Author: Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
Grand sale but, as rly auction shows, where are the buyers?
The government’s failure to sell any of the 109 railway passenger routes it auctioned in August is a shameful fiasco.
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Tame Taliban? Let’s not kid ourselves. Their win is just the tip of the jihad iceberg
The rapid collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban has sparked much finger pointing. Yet the Taliban have been advancing for
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I-Day ruminations: Could Partition have been avoided?
August 15 remains a day for contemplating whether India’s 1947 Partition was avoidable. Some say the British forced it. Any
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Why Pegasus is just the tip of the iceberg
A global media investigation has revealed that Pegasus, a telephone hacking software invented in Israel and supposedly sold only to
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Investor warning: Unicorns can go bust too
I have written twice already on the rise of unicorns, unlisted companies valued at over a billion dollars each. The
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1991 reforms gave us miracle growth, but now it’s fading
When Manmohan Singh launched economic liberalization in 1991, India was the world’s biggest beggar for aid. Today India is a
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2051: Richer, fractured, a light-hearted look at what India may turn out to be 30 years from now
Readers may be bored with lengthy, learned analyses of 30 years of Indian economic reform, starting with Manmohan Singh’s budget
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Why Zomato IPO is reason for cheer
Unicorns — unlisted start-ups valued privately at a billion dollars or more — are exploding in number and coming to
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