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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

Honour killings in India

Violence against women’s autonomy, in all matters and especially in matters of sexuality and marriage, is one of India’s most widespread and tenacious forms of gender violence – and also the least…
March 16, 2018

The myth of a two-front war

The conspicuously modest rise in the defence budget for 2018-19 highlights the mismatch between India’s grandiose strategic ambitions and our limited ability to fund them. Defence allocations, including military pensions, will rise…
March 16, 2018

Cosmology’s worst gambler

Stephen Hawking had a rich history with bets; particularly losing them. The best known was the one with Caltech (California Institute of Technology) cosmologist Kip Thorne, about the existence of black holes,…
March 16, 2018

How Civil Is India’s Civil Service

Does a career in the Indian civil service mean a life of ‘public service’? It is a puzzling question given the sloth and the thickets of red-tapism that have eroded the bureaucracy.…
March 15, 2018
Srinagar: Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti with Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu during the Special Session of Legislative Assembly called to pass the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, in Srinagar on Wednesday. PTI Photo(PTI7_5_2017_000070A)

Mufti’s close confidant didn’t have Mehbooba’s trust

HaseebDrabu, the articulate, media-savvy face of Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was happier in the company of his old friends from the world of finance or the media in New Delhi…
March 15, 2018

Rethinking Islamophobia

“Why is a Black woman on your book cover?” asked the middle-aged, South Asian woman, shortly after I finished lecturing at an event in Michigan. The woman posing the question was a…
March 15, 2018

Breach of Trust

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes…
March 15, 2018
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