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Patralekha Chatterjee | India: As Rupee Falls, Aspirations Crashing

Patralekha Chatterjee | India: As Rupee Falls, Aspirations Crashing

A depreciating rupee is eroding household budgets long before prices show it

10 Dec 2025 7:40 PM IST

Anita Anand | Do We Work to Live or Live to Work? Do Longer Hours Raise Our Productivity?

Anita Anand | Do We Work to Live or Live to Work? Do Longer Hours...

Mr Murthy’s call for the “9-9-6” formula essentially applies to employees in the organised sector, such as the...

10 Dec 2025 12:32 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As Global Climate Deal Sinks, India, China Must Innovate

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As Global Climate Deal Sinks, India, China...

All climate change decisions are political because they reflect and affect the power, influence of countries and peoples

10 Dec 2025 12:18 AM IST

Charudutta Panigrahi | Will Odisha Pharma Summit 2025 Be a Defining Moment for Eastern India?

Charudutta Panigrahi | Will Odisha Pharma Summit 2025 Be a Defining...

With big job targets and investment plans, Odisha seeks to join India’s pharma growth story

9 Dec 2025 7:51 PM IST

Aakar Patel | How The Ayodhya Frenzy By Advani Transformed India, Put BJP In Power

Aakar Patel | How The Ayodhya Frenzy By Advani Transformed India, Put...

In February 1989, at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, the VHP said it would lay the foundation stone for the temple in...

9 Dec 2025 12:24 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | India-Russia Legacy Ties: Strategic Autonomy 3.0?

Shikha Mukerjee | India-Russia Legacy Ties: Strategic Autonomy 3.0?

It is also not to argue that the visits planned for the arrival of teams from the European Union are not equally...

8 Dec 2025 11:58 PM IST

Sunil Gatade | A ‘Cat And Mouse’ Game On In Maha As BJP’s Allies Are Getting Sidelined

Sunil Gatade | A ‘Cat And Mouse’ Game On In Maha As BJP’s Allies Are...

Mr Shinde and Mr Pawar are virtually at the mercy of the BJP, which proclaims itself to be the world’s largest party....

7 Dec 2025 11:03 PM IST

SANJAYOVACHA | The Growth Leap Needed To Reach ‘Viksit Bharat’ | Sanjaya Baru

SANJAYOVACHA | The Growth Leap Needed To Reach ‘Viksit Bharat’ |...

The policy challenge is to take the growth trajectory upwards by one and a half percentage points. This is not as easy...

7 Dec 2025 10:12 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | Of Class Assignments & The Theatre of SIR

Shashi Warrier | Of Class Assignments & The Theatre of SIR

“I know,” he said after another little gap. “It’s unfair. But you should have told me as soon as it happened. I can’t do...

7 Dec 2025 1:21 AM IST

Anita Katyal | Why BJP Yet To Elect Head; Only Tharoor At Putin Event

Anita Katyal | Why BJP Yet To Elect Head; Only Tharoor At Putin Event

A new name has now been added to this list: V.D. Sharma, Lok Sabha MP from Khajuraho and former president of the party’s...

7 Dec 2025 1:09 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

In its original incarnation — from 1950 until the late 1980s — the ECI was a single-member body, led only by a Chief...

7 Dec 2025 12:50 AM IST

REFLECTIONS | Will 28-point Trump Plan Lead To Peace In Ukraine? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Will 28-point Trump Plan Lead To Peace In Ukraine? |...

Ironically, neither Ukraine nor the world might have feared this larger global peril if Ukraine had not been one of four...

5 Dec 2025 10:02 PM IST