Opinion

SK Nag A futuristic city proactively and predictably adjusts city management infrastructure to facilitate and deliver a better living situation under its design philosophy. So, smart cities are fast becoming a need. But are these future cities intelligent enough to support such changed demands? Though...

Shivaji Sarkar The bad year is gone. Hope of a good 2021 has set in. The bell tolls for a new India despite the burgeoning battle for coming out of the shadows of COVID-19. The economy is “reflating faster at a pace that beats most...

Bhaskar Nath Biswal The growing need for financial education for families to take prudent and rational investment decisions and to ensure their economic security has been widely recognised. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed our financial weaknesses which necessitated some sort of economic security at the...

Melvin Durai I have always loved this time of the year, mostly because it allows me to dream of all the possibilities that the New Year will bring. This is a time to make New Year’s resolutions and transform our lives. It’s amazing what a...

Farmers across the country have a lot more on their plate than just the ongoing agitation. They are losing more to roads and highways or expressways than the mere MSP guarantee they are demanding or repeal of the farm laws. The 10 new expressways proposed...

DK Giri Last week, on 16 December, India and Bangladesh moved closer towards stitching a robust partnership in a virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina. After bad taste in bilateral relationship over CAA-NRC, the summit that resulted in signing...

Ian Buruma Why would a US President in the last weeks of his administration want to start executing federal prisoners at a furious pace, even as he pardons four American mercenaries who murdered 14 Iraqi civilians in cold blood? The federal government has killed ten...

Brahma Chellaney Even after Asia’s economies climb out of the COVID-19 recession, China’s strategy of frenetically building dams and reservoirs on transnational rivers will confront them with a more permanent barrier to long-term economic prosperity: water scarcity. China’s recently unveiled plan to construct a mega-dam...

SN Misra In 1990, Pakistani Economist Mahbub ul Haq, in close collaboration with Noble laureate Amartya Sen evolved the Human Development Index (HDI) which went beyond the misdirected power of GDP to account for human development capability in terms of education and longevity. Two decades...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The West and Islam are at loggerheads with each other. This is unfortunate because both are fundamentally egalitarian ideologies. The French Revolution of 1789 was anchored on the slogan “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” Yet, the French people enslaved large parts of North Africa in...