The Silver Bowl
Ruchira reminisces about a silver set for a cousin’s wedding, many moons ago, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Looking back now, I am inclined to believe...
Agriculture Needs to be Freed from Shackles
Even as India successfully ended by degrees the despicable licence-cum-permit raj after the advent of industrial and trade policy reforms way back in 1991, the concurrent improvement on the...
Anti-Trafficking Bill is the Worst Victim of Lok Sabha Logjam
The long-pending legislative initiative by Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi — The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 — could not be introduced at...
The New Financial Year Ushers in Hope and Optimism
The past financial year was marked by the great disruption of the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST), a change which not just affected government revenues but...
Fifteen Years after the US Invasion of Iraq Terrorist Activities Spread to New Areas
It’s a good time to reflect on what Iraq war — the longest in U.S. history — has cost Americans and others around the world. Americans spend $32 million per...
Export Woes of India Continues Unabated: Need to Step up Goods and Services Exports
India missed the bus in early 2000 when it had an opportunity to become a global hub for manufacturing as well as services. India’s share in goods exports was...
Tariff Hikes of Trump Unlikely to Trigger Trade War: India Insulated from US Action against China
Trade relations between India and USA and China and India are diagonally opposite to each other. While India has a trade surplus with the USA, it has a trade...
Government Stand on Primary Health Care Still Unclear
It needs to be recalled that for a country widely credited to have the benefit of demographic dividends with a robust youthful workforce it took 15 long years to...
Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright
Humourist Soumya narrates a real-life incident of tiger watching, in a different genre, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. The tiger, I had come to the conclusion,...
Wonder why we are distanced from Wall-mates at Workplaces!
In offices, we are often a wall away from our wall-mates. But, each of us seems to be walled within our small selves, seldom helping each other, agonises Hemashri,...