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EWS Quota: Can targeting 90% of Indians be called reservation, affirmative action or positive discrimination?

Until now, reservation was prompted by the perennial caste-based discrimination system, which has pushed a significant p...

General Indian Economy

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From Desperation to Destitution to Despair

The callous and unwarranted announcement of demonetisation in November 2016 was one of the cruellest blows to the majori...

General Indian Economy

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IDBI Privatisation: Betrayal with Parliamentary Mandate & Mandate of the Constitution

After getting independence in the year 1947, India adopted the process of planning for the economic development of t...

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GM food is back on the table

So are the protests against the regulator GEAC’s lack of scientific rigour, due processes and a remarkable reluctance to...

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How the CSR is being systemically killed

While there is no way of knowing if companies are really spending 2% of their net profits, the Centre has removed criti...

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The Global hunger Index – India denying its own data!

𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 The Global Hunger Index has placed India at 107th position below Pakis...

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Why is India crying foul over worsening hunger?

The Global Hunger Index 2022 relies on India’s official data in two of the four indicators, and gives extra marks in the...

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Hanuman’s leap: Why India’s firms aren’t making investments despite Nirmala Sitharaman’s pleading

Industrialists will only invest when it they see returns and it makes business sense. In Kishkinda Kanda, the fourth bo...

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India added a whopping 79% to the global ‘extreme poor’ in 2020

Shockingly, World Bank estimated this using a private firm CMIE’s surveys, because the Indian government wouldn’t collec...

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Pitfalls of Centre’s love for “revdi culture”

Two shocking revelations have hit recently: Vedanta-Foxconn cornering an entire sectoral subsidy of Rs 76,000 crore to b...

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November 12, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

EWS Quota: Can targeting 90% of Indians be called reservation, affirmative action or positive discrimination?

Until now, reservation was prompted by the perennial caste-based discrimination system, which has pushed a significant population into multiple deprivations; upper castes suffer no such handicap. The Supreme Court judgement of November 7, 2022, upholding a 10% quota in educational institutions and g...

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November 8, 2022

Ritu Dewan

From Desperation to Destitution to Despair

The callous and unwarranted announcement of demonetisation in November 2016 was one of the cruellest blows to the majority of India’s citizens, compelling them to plunge from what was already a life of desperation even deeper into destitution. This senseless, unethical, and economically irrational p...

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November 8, 2022

Devidas Tuljapurkar

IDBI Privatisation: Betrayal with Parliamentary Mandate & Mandate of the Constitution

After getting independence in the year 1947, India adopted the process of planning for the economic development of the country. As soon as it became a republic, in 1950, the first five-year plan was launched. One of our initial priorities was Industrial development, which required investment in ...

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October 31, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

GM food is back on the table

So are the protests against the regulator GEAC’s lack of scientific rigour, due processes and a remarkable reluctance to prioritize the safety of life and environment. Genetically modified food is back in the news after the regulator Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) recommended “enviro...

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October 31, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

How the CSR is being systemically killed

While there is no way of knowing if companies are really spending 2% of their net profits, the Centre has removed critical disclosure norms, making CSR activities entirely opaque and unaccountable Having diluted corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending of domestic and foreign companies by all...

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March 11, 2026

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The Global hunger Index – India denying its own data!

𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 The Global Hunger Index has placed India at 107th position below Pakistan, Nepal and even Sri Lanka. The Indian government reacted with a strong rebuttal, alleging flawed data collection, poor methodology and conspiracy to malign the nation’s i...

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October 18, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

Why is India crying foul over worsening hunger?

The Global Hunger Index 2022 relies on India’s official data in two of the four indicators, and gives extra marks in the third, while for the fourth, it relies on FAO’s survey as India has no data! India has been crying foul so often in response to adverse global assessments for so long that it is e...

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October 11, 2022

Anirban Bhattacharya

Hanuman’s leap: Why India’s firms aren’t making investments despite Nirmala Sitharaman’s pleading

Industrialists will only invest when it they see returns and it makes business sense. In Kishkinda Kanda, the fourth book of the epic Ramayana, the wise Jambavan reminds Hanuman of his own strength. As Jambavan observes the several hundred thousands of the army of monkeys dejected and perplexed abo...

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October 10, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

India added a whopping 79% to the global ‘extreme poor’ in 2020

Shockingly, World Bank estimated this using a private firm CMIE’s surveys, because the Indian government wouldn’t collect household consumption data, lest it reveals the ugly truth The World Bank’s latest poverty estimate delivers shocking news: India added a whopping 79% of new extreme poor to th...

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September 30, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

Pitfalls of Centre’s love for “revdi culture”

Two shocking revelations have hit recently: Vedanta-Foxconn cornering an entire sectoral subsidy of Rs 76,000 crore to build chips and a wrong Hyundai group getting the PLI to make EV batteries The superficial and partisan debate over “freebies” sparked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself now ...

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EWS Quota: Can targeting 90% of Indians be called reservation, affirmative action or positive discrimination?

From Desperation to Destitution to Despair

IDBI Privatisation: Betrayal with Parliamentary Mandate & Mandate of the Constitution

GM food is back on the table

How the CSR is being systemically killed

The Global hunger Index – India denying its own data!

Why is India crying foul over worsening hunger?

Hanuman’s leap: Why India’s firms aren’t making investments despite Nirmala Sitharaman’s pleading

India added a whopping 79% to the global ‘extreme poor’ in 2020

Pitfalls of Centre’s love for “revdi culture”

EWS Quota: Can targeting 90% of Indians be called reservation, affirmative action or positive discrimination?

From Desperation to Destitution to Despair

IDBI Privatisation: Betrayal with Parliamentary Mandate & Mandate of the Constitution

GM food is back on the table

How the CSR is being systemically killed

The Global hunger Index – India denying its own data!

Why is India crying foul over worsening hunger?

Hanuman’s leap: Why India’s firms aren’t making investments despite Nirmala Sitharaman’s pleading

India added a whopping 79% to the global ‘extreme poor’ in 2020

Pitfalls of Centre’s love for “revdi culture”

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