Having age-appropriate menus is smart, but will it dodge the anti-woke police?Menus in Britain are obliged to enumerate the calorific value of each dish on offer, a requirement applauded by nutritionists and dietitian...
02 Aug, 2025, 11.01 PM IST
View: Trump is a product of, not cause for, a return to an era of spheres of influenceAs Donald Trump assumes the presidency, there is significant debate about his administration impacting the U.S. foreign policy. There is a ...
19 Jan, 2025, 11.19 PM IST
How Harris wins (and Trump and the Republicans blow it)On November 6, 2024, the morning after Election Day, Kamala Harris narrowly defeated Donald Trump, utilizing a minimalist approach to her c...
04 Sep, 2024, 10.04 PM IST
Why distinctions between subsidies for ‘merit goods’ and ‘freebies’ are dubious from economic viewpointSomeone should undertake a comprehensive computation of all subsidies, implicit and explicit, production and consumption. We will get a fig...
21 Sep, 2022, 11.21 PM IST
How foods are now betraying shibbolethsFood items are familiar and local, yet people have different ways of cooking & naming them as food habits persist in communities.
19 Mar, 2022, 12.59 PM IST
View: Global climate inaction shows multilateral institutions need reinventingTo be sure, multilateralism will need to re-examine its shibboleths and may have to reinvent itself if it plans to save the world from itse...
29 Oct, 2021, 11.09 PM IST
Businesses by nature are problem solvers — industry leaders hold the best climate crisis solutions: Nancy F. Koehn"Business has a huge role in effecting the kind of energy and technology used and diffused among the public. But business also has the reso...
31 Jul, 2021, 12.30 AM IST
View: New agriculture laws need reformatting to win back farmersGoI’s proposal to supplement the state-run mandis with a two-tier system by which farmers can opt for any buyer of their choice, or continu...
11 Dec, 2020, 11.17 PM IST
View: It's not just the Indian soldiers that fell off the cliff at the borderThe only surprise is that it took so long to happen given the increasing number of face-offs.
18 Jun, 2020, 11.40 AM IST
Why Narendra Modi must ask his followers to heed his namesakeModi has a challenge to build a positive nationalism where we all work hard and honestly, and not spend our lives watching each other furti...
11 Mar, 2019, 05.51 PM IST
JNU row: Two professors at the university give their side of the storyWhat has happened in JNU is that there is a tremendous attack on our right to question everything.
13 Mar, 2016, 12.22 PM IST
Election 2014 was a verdict on the ailments of economyBefore self-inflicted injuries derailed the economy in 2011, it had become hard to make the case for rapid growth. There was an urban legen...
30 Sep, 2014, 05.15 AM IST
War against caste oppression calls for fighting on multiple frontsIt is easy to change laws, even if this had become a challenge in the recent past of fractured electoral mandates. What is tough is to chan...
17 Jun, 2014, 07.17 AM IST
Retail FDI will transform agriculture by integrating Indian farmers in the global supply chainCompared to power sector reforms, an infrastructure push or restructuring labour laws, the change in rules to allow 51% FDI in multi-brand ...
25 Sep, 2012, 12.12 PM IST
- Ignore CD noise; let the Lokpal committee do its job
It would be unfortunate if government or ruling party leaders are seen to be part an effort to discredit the campaign against corruption.
20 Apr, 2011, 06.45 AM IST
- AP for piping KG gas first to power cos
Andhra Pradesh, the landfall point for Reliance Industries’ (RIL) Krishna-Godavari gas, has stepped into the gas tangle demanding a larger ...
11 Feb, 2009, 12.35 AM IST
- UPA re-prioritising gas distribution in the run-up to the elections
An EGoM may have decided to prioritise low dependence on fertiliser imports as well as gas supply to the sector when it comes to the RIL’s ...
10 Feb, 2009, 09.08 PM IST