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Stepdaughters won’t step aside for stepmoms

Melvin Durai The video of Melania Trump, Donald Trump's wife, and his daughter Ivanka Trump greeting each other at the recent Republican National Convention has been watched more than five million times. At first, it seems to show a friendly relationship between stepmom and stepdaughter....

SOME GAIN, SOME PAIN

Suman Dash Bhattamishra & Rangin Pallav Tripathy In a recent judgement, the Orissa High Court has affirmed the right of non-heterosexual couples to live together. The court also declared that the rights of a woman in such a relationship will be safeguarded under the Protection...

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Care for needs of lesser skilled

Dr Errol D’Souza Half of humanity lives in cities today and almost all the urban expansion in the next few decades are going to take place in the developing world. Yet one in four urban residents across the world lives in slums and the share...

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PASSING GST BUCK

Ajit Ranade The past week has been dominated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remark alluding to an “act of God”. She was referring to the Covid-19 pandemic which is now seen as the main cause of the unprecedented recession in India and the world. Never...

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Cities that fail migrant populations

Dr Errol D’Souza Is migration to urban areas advantageous for rural migrants? Mostly it is assumed that cities play an important role as a conduit for many to get away from rural poverty. Yet my limited experience of working with underprivileged migrants indicates that cities...

Wheels within wheels

Saeed Naqvi The late RK Mishra, the editor of Patriot and founder of Observer Research Foundation, used to tell a delicious story about Indira Gandhi whom he knew well. One day, Dev Kant Barua, Congress president during the Emergency, furtively handed Mishra a crumpled piece...

An act of human failure & not ‘God’s’

Shivaji Sarkar Consumption shock from the pandemic is severe and the world economy devastated. Like the World Bank, the Reserve Bank of India too is less hopeful of coming out of contraction and even with higher government spending recovery may be delayed. The Indian collapse...

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4 paths of US-China ties

Yuen Yuen Ang There is no bilateral diplomatic relationship more consequential than the one between the United States and China, which affects not only the two countries but all of humanity. And now, the future of this relationship hinges on who will lead each country...

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India in US elections as Kamala steps in

Dr. D. K. Giri The presidential elections in the United States generate a good deal of interest across the world. The election in November next is drawing more attention than usual because of the re-run of mercurial incumbent Donald Trump. In India, the nomination of...

SMALL TOWNS, NEW HOPE

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Many thinkers – Gandhians and others – favoured a village-centric growth strategy. The argument is that we cannot bear the economic load of urbanization; that urban living is impersonal and disrupts human relationships; and that urbanization is synonymous with centralised governance in which...

 

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