Health care delivery vital
Modular Hospitals
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
In India, out of pocket (OOP) expenditure makes up 63 per cent or almost two-thirds of total health expenditure as...
Centre prompt, states slow
Judicial Appointments
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
It is gratifying to note that in recent months the Centre has been quite prompt in clearing appointment of judges. Lately...
Uniform Civil code, anyone?
When Gods Are Poll Cut Outs
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s the silly season of Ram-Rahim being reduced to political poll cut outs with each community...
Huge idea, weak links
Digital Health
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
Prime Minister Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) last month, which is envisaged as a complete digital health...
Junk trillions in cars, feed lobbies
Green Delusion: Scrap The Citizen
By Shivaji Sarkar
India has perfected a rare form of innovation: the ability to repeatedly convert economic assets into liabilities, wealth...
Aid peace process or setback?
Yasin Malik Gets Life Term
By Insaf
Will the life term handed to Kashmir separatist Yasin Malik ‘fuel more alienation and separatist feeling’ as the PAGDwarns...
Heartbreak India
Migrant Politics
By Poonam I Kaushish
The heartbreaking human tragedy of Asli Bharat migrant workers exodus from Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan to Madhya...
India presses for rupee trade
New Saudi Petro-$ Regime Begins
By Shivaji Sarkar
Indians are hopeful of a new petroleum pricing regime with Saudi Arabia refusing to renew the 50-year-old US-Saudi...
Are olicy makers concerned?
Justice & Indian Politics
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
All political parties, not just in India but the world over, talk of justice, interpreting it in various ways....
India’s Moral Terrorist
Ideas more dangerous than guns
By Poonam I Kaushish
“Off with her head, arguments later”, ordered the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. A term synonymous in...
Dependence on pvt sector!
Economic Survey
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Most Economic Surveys and the recent one too presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has lot of optimism, but questions remain...
Govt must be realistic
Spectre of Reforms
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is much debate over NDA government having initiated major reforms which would change the face of the economy with...
India must meet challenge
Innovation & Tech Expertise
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The enhanced H-1B visa structure has repercussions alright. However, if the same talent that goes to the US and...
Integrating communities vital
Understanding Nationalism
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Political scientists and historians are today engaged in debating what true nationalism is with politicians talking in terms of a new...
Media must be objective
Fact-Checking
By Sabina Inderjit
The famous quote ‘facts are sacred, but comment is free,’ by British journalist CP Scott, founder of what is The Guardian today...
Economic Revival
Discard top-down approach
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Suddenly there is a great momentum for the need to revive the economy. After recent criticism by former finance minister...
Thaw in Delhi-Dacca ties
By Inder Jit
(Released on 29 September 1981)
India’s relations with Bangladesh have been put back on the rails, thanks to the recent visit of the...
Money hai to power hai!
Market For Defectors
By Poonam I Kaushish
In these hot climes, political India is feeling the heat and how! One doesn’t know who is sleeping with...
Targets opposition ministers?
130th Constitutional Amend Bill
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The 130thConstitutional Amendment Bill has raised a hue and cry among the Opposition. Tabled just two days before the...
Theme significance
Independence 75thYear
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
India is starting its 75th year of independencewith a mixture of great expectations and disheartening disappointments...