Opinion

Melvin Durai In my next life, I want to be farmer. Farming is hard work, with no guarantee of making a good living, but let me tell you something from personal experience: there is something magical about sowing seeds, watching them germinate and eventually harvesting...

Rup Narayan Das At a time when India is commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and his passing away is still shrouded in mystery, it is worth a while to revisit a seminal work, Verdict from Formosa: Gallant End of Netaji...

Dr DK Giri Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s visit to India last week as the special envoy to finalise a Free Trade Agreement has sent a dramatic message to China and the world. If what he said happens, it would mean a radical change...

SN Misra The World Health Assembly had set a target to reduce the prevalence of anaemia among women in the age group of 19-49 by 50 per cent by 2025. As per the Global Nutrition Report 2020, India will miss this target by miles. Anaemia...

Melvin Durai It was early evening on August 7 and officials at the National Centre of Seismology were concerned about several tremors they had detected in Delhi, Haryana and other parts of India. They were about to issue an earthquake warning when they found themselves...

Dhanada K Mishra The just-released ‘IPCC Report 2021’ has been called ‘code red’ for humanity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, short for IPCC, has been issuing these warnings for over three decades now based on the near-unanimous scientific consensus that anthropogenic emissions are causing...

Jagdish Rattanani & Sudarshan Iyengar The growing influence of large and powerful business conglomerates continue to raise concerns, not only in India but across the world. Suspicions have risen high these days in the age of the overwhelming influence of Facebook and Google but they...

Dr Sanjay Kumar Panda The National Handloom Day is scheduled to be observed August 7, 2021. Initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 in Chennai, this celebration seeks to reiterate the importance of handloom in the socio-economic-cultural fabric of our country and boost the...

Dasarathi Mishra The Covid-19 pandemic could be a game-changer for digital financial services. Low-income households and small firms can benefit greatly from advances in mobile money, fintech services, and online banking. Financial inclusion as a result of digital financial services can also boost economic growth....

Melvin Durai One of my favourite moments from the Tokyo Olympics came in the finals of the men’s high jump, when the top two competitors, Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy, decided to share the gold medal. The tall and nimble athletes,...