How long will the coronavirus pandemic last along with the deep economic recession it has created? I am a pessimist and fear a protracted tragedy. Consider three possible scenarios. First, with effective medical and economic responses, the crisis might rise […]
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Outrageously small. Crumbs from a miser’s table. Spineless obeisance to fiscal orthodoxy. Cowardly fears of foreigners reacting badly to a massive fiscal stimulus. Forgive my censorious language in castigating the inadequacy of the government’s Rs 1.7 trillion relief package (0.8%
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Nobody knows how long the coronavirus pandemic will last. But one thing is certain: it has killed Donald Trump’s chances of being re-elected as US President. He may survive the virus and live, but he will die politically. The US
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We face the greatest medical-cum-economic crisis in history. Admit it or not, the coronavirus has already created a deep global recession. Even earlier, Europe and Japan verged on recession while Indian GDP growth had halved from its peak. This leaves
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Do not celebrate the crash in oil prices. It is a consequence of the growing coronavirus disaster that threatens a deep global recession. In every recession, commodity prices fall. But that indicates coming pain more than gain. Fiscal and monetary
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Dear Prime Minister Modi, With Delhi aflame, India has become a vortex of hate and violence, raising human rights concerns globally and ruining your hard foreign policy work of six years. Please abandon partisan recrimination over anti-CAA protests. Aim to
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Narendra Modi’s claim of good governance was shattered yet again by Delhi’s riots last week that took 40 lives and destroyed the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of overwhelmingly Muslim families. BJP leader Kapil Mishra had given advance notice of
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It’s time this noxious remnant from the British raj against Indians is dumped Last week, 19-year-old Amulya Leona Noronha was arrested for sedition for saying, ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, at a rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has made headlines by saying divorce is commoner in educated and affluent families “because with education and affluence comes arrogance, as a result of which families fall apart.” In the ancient days that Bhagwat reveres, India
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India is going through its slowest threeyear growth period since the Asian Financial crisis. GDP growth is now estimated at 6.1% in 2018-19, 5% in 2019-20, and (according to the IMF) 5.8% in 2020-21. Is India trapped in a new
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