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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    The egg is a polarising issue, but not along neat, predictable, party-political lines. (Representational Image)Opinion
    India's egg wars' and our political priorities

    If Mr Upasane's words sound like they are stigmatising the everyday egg, which many of us have for breakfast, it is...

    24 Jan 2019 1:57 AM IST

    Young people are acquiring more education and entering the labour force with graduate degrees.Opinion
    Dev 360: Can learning outcomes be a poll issue in India?

    Can one seriously expect children, handicapped by poor nutrition and poor teaching, to show dramatic progress in...

    19 Jan 2019 7:36 AM IST

    Rashtriya Swayamsevak SanghOpinion
    Looking backwards as we look ahead to 2019

    Today, religion and mythology make up the main course on the high table of political discourse in this country.

    27 Dec 2018 12:39 AM IST

    Now, nearly half a century later, a determined effort is being made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to suborn the independence and integrity of the civil service. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The Game of Change: Stormy days lie ahead

    We are likely to hear more of the Ram Mandir, framed as a “cultural issue”, a collective people's demand, not an...

    13 Dec 2018 7:17 AM IST

    As the national plastic surgery day is being observed on July 15, Dr Smitha said that there is a general fear that plastic surgeries might not work. Seeing the right doctor at the right time plays a vital role in plastic surgeries, she said. (Photo: Pixabay) (Representational image)Opinion
    Looks can kill: Watch docs, hospitals closely

    The investigations cover coronary stents, pacemakers, hip implants, knee implants, breast implants, pelvic meshes and...

    29 Nov 2018 7:14 AM IST

    The respondents also believe that the top three environmental issues that affect personal health are air pollution, drinking polluted water and global warming and climate change (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Dev 360: Must religion & health be on collision course?

    Polluted air also does not differentiate between the believer and non-believer, between Hindus and non-Hindus.

    15 Nov 2018 7:44 AM IST

    Addressing a gathering, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath asked the pro-Dalit activists to raise the issue of Dalit reservation in AMU and Jamia Millia University. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Don't undermine SC, that would hurt India

    Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath publicly said sometimes, justice delayed is justice equivalent to injustice .

    1 Nov 2018 2:06 AM IST

    Thanks to one Alpesh Thakor, OBC (Other Backward Class) leader contesting on a Congress ticket, who put a comically different spin on the PMs dietary habits. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)Opinion
    Insiders and outsiders: Why migrants are vital

    Anti-migrant sentiments bring public attention back to India's most pressing challenge: jobs.

    18 Oct 2018 1:09 AM IST

    That is no reason to be dismissive towards women who have mustered courage and are outing their predators or see the current #MeToo movement as a conflict between grassroots feminism and elite feminism. (Representional Image)Opinion
    #MeToo to #UsToo: Power lies in numbers

    Mine was not the workplace sexual harassment that most of the #MeToo stories have dealt with.

    13 Oct 2018 2:18 AM IST

    The Supreme Court has also brought relief to the gay community by striking down the provisions of the obnoxious colonial-era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalised consensual homosexual acts between adults.Opinion
    Why constitutional morality' is vital, and matters to us all

    Lawyers and judges have in the past weighed into the discussion on constitutional morality with great vigour.

    4 Oct 2018 1:47 AM IST

    Why religious leaders could turn predatorsOpinion
    Why religious leaders could turn predators

    The protesters allege Bishop Franco Mulakkal had raped a nun several times between 2014 and 2016.

    20 Sept 2018 12:25 AM IST

    Tamilisai SoundararajanOpinion
    Dev 360: Dissent & democracy A real debate needed

    If dissent and ideological differences with those who are in power are equated with treason, what is an ordinary,...

    6 Sept 2018 7:58 AM IST

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