Having served 14 years of a life term in jail, the convicts had asked for release on the ground of old age and ‘good behaviour’. How can ‘good conduct’ in jail compensate for the horrors wreaked on Bilkis and her […]
SC verdict on Bilkis Bano comes as a welcome breath of justice Read More »
Will this interim budget really be a bore? After all, this is an election year. But the BJP is so certain of winning that it has no need to look to the interim budget for votes. Sitharaman will doubtless talk
Feb budget may have rhetoric, but not sops Read More »
Piketty and Chancel analysed different periods of taxation in India, and concluded that inequality dropped sharply from 1950 to the early 1980s under Nehru-Indira’s socialism, but then rose sharply in the era of economic liberalisation. Was the Nehru-Indira era good
Recalculate inequality — it hasn’t worsened over time, it’s stayed the same Read More »
Letting youngsters decide who they want to marry might have an unexpected benefit for the economy. I am currently holidaying in Bali. Many readers will know that 90% of Bali’s population is Hindu in a country that is overwhelmingly Muslim. I
Lesson from Bali: India needs more love marriages Read More »
Traditional data cannot capture the fantastic growth of globalisation through digital services. Much of it is free, and traditional statistics simply cannot capture the invaluable addition to human welfare through free services. ChatGPT has even made AI available to billions
Do not mourn the death of globalisation — like it or not, it is alive and kicking Read More »
Developing countries have contributed very little to the total greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Why should they not be able to produce what the rich countries produced to become rich? Climate summits are occasions for massive hypocrisy. COP28 in Dubai has just
Why West has no right to lecture India on coal usage Read More »
COP28 is discussing reforms of global food systems but the western argument for locavorism is actually protectionism in disguise. The current climate summit in Dubai, called COP28, will once again call for a wide range of measures to save the earth. Because of
Why West’s local food fad can’t save the planet Read More »
The entire world economy has defied pessimists, and 2023 is turning out to be a much better year than expected. The good news will spill over into 2024. Hence, one can expect markets to rise across the world. Emerging markets
Economist and columnist Swaminathan Aiyar said that global investors have to some extent already factored in a Narendra Modi victory in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. India is a new locomotive that is taking the place of China, says Swaminathan
India now seen as new kind of locomotive taking China’s place: Swaminathan Aiyar Read More »
Bollywood spies make for hit films but in real life, killing terrorists only creates martyrs Bollywood has glamourised Indian secret service agents. Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan are so irresistible in spy films that even Pakistani secret agents
Why Political Problems cannot be Solved by Assassinations Read More »
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