In Focus: Elections 2024

By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be charitable
By Haresh Jagtiani |
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), widely believed to be the hand maiden of the BJP has arrested Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his excise liquor policy whi
By Jagdish Rattanani |
“When the world sleeps,” Jawaharlal Nehru said, “India will awake to light and freedom”. More than 75 years from that momentous occasion on Aug.
By Haresh Jagtiani |
The manifest concern for preserving democracy in India cannot be better exemplified than in the two recent verdicts of the Supreme Court, both authored by the CJI Dr.
By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Ajit Ranade |
The India Employment Report 2024 was published last week.
By Haresh Jagtiani |
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), widely believed to be the hand maiden of the BJP has arrested Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his excise liquor policy whi
By Jagdish Rattanani |
“When the world sleeps,” Jawaharlal Nehru said, “India will awake to light and freedom”. More than 75 years from that momentous occasion on Aug.
By Ajit Ranade |
A factory using a water intensive chemical process in Gujarat had a problem. It was the onset of summer. The assured industrial supply of water was not forthcoming.

Politics

By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be charitable
By Haresh Jagtiani |
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), widely believed to be the hand maiden of the BJP has arrested Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his excise liquor policy whi
By Jagdish Rattanani |
“When the world sleeps,” Jawaharlal Nehru said, “India will awake to light and freedom”. More than 75 years from that momentous occasion on Aug.

Business

By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It was an easy bet that the MPC of RBI would keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50 per cent – seventh pause in a row – in its first bi-monthly meeting for 2024-2
By Ajit Ranade |
The India Employment Report 2024 was published last week.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
“When the world sleeps,” Jawaharlal Nehru said, “India will awake to light and freedom”. More than 75 years from that momentous occasion on Aug.

Economy

By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be charitable
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It was an easy bet that the MPC of RBI would keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50 per cent – seventh pause in a row – in its first bi-monthly meeting for 2024-2
By Ajit Ranade |
The India Employment Report 2024 was published last week.

Society

By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Ajit Ranade |
The India Employment Report 2024 was published last week.
By Ajit Ranade |
A factory using a water intensive chemical process in Gujarat had a problem. It was the onset of summer. The assured industrial supply of water was not forthcoming.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In India, one picture is the Ambani razzmatazz at a reported bill of about Rs.1,000 crore; another is almost 60% of India living on free food grains from the sarkar

Diaries

By Vidyadhar Date |
A valuable treasure trove of art work, murals, frescoes and paintings lie in a 16th century…
By Vidyadhar Date |
Recently I went to the redeveloped, commercialised Mahim bus station with 24-storey building…
By Vidyadhar Date |
The then Home Minister R.R. Patil pleaded helplessness of the government. He said the government…
By Vidyadhar Date |
In a way, Kala Nagar and adjoining buildings are highly privileged because of the Thackeray…

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