Opinion

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The president of the World Bank has said recently that the world economy has already entered into a recession that is likely to continue for many years. Another report said that the United States’ banks had already suffered a 30 per cent decline...

Erik Berglöf China is aiming to halt the rise in its carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. If it succeeds, the country will have gone, in less than 40 years, from being the world’s largest CO2 emitter to bringing...

Kaushik Basu Our recent experience with COVID-19 and the word ‘lockdown’ once again illustrates the power of language to influence our lives and wellbeing. The infinite variety of reality, and the finite number of words and phrases we have to describe it, creates an inescapable...

Melvin Durai The coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us to wear masks — mostly in public but sometimes even at home. While some people are wearing masks reluctantly, like they’re accommodating a distant uncle temporarily in their homes, others have accepted and embraced masks,...

Rahul Pradhan The Supreme Court should look beyond the boundaries and try to reach approbation with the litigators. The usual camaraderie seems to be lost since lawyers have to travel miles to reach Delhi for the court matters. Article 130 of the Constitution provides “The...

Dhanada K Mishra Hong Kong discards between 4-6 million disposable face masks every day! The bulk of the discarded face masks are sent to the landfill along with the general waste. Based on the estimation that each face mask weighs two to three grams, the...

Saeed Naqvi For the new team being announced by the Biden administration any innovation can only follow repair work of the considerable wreckage that is being left behind by the outgoing team. At this moment of transition, what construct does one place on the outgoing...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Ever since the nation embarked on the path of neo-liberalism, there has been a constant attempt by the ruling dispensations at the Centre to allow entry of business houses into the banking sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently released a...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Our GDP growth rate was negative to the tune of (-) 24 per cent in the first quarter April to June of the fiscal 2020-21. It was expected to be negative at about (-) 8 to 10 per cent in the second quarter...

Brahma Chellaney Last month, an 18-year-old Chechen immigrant stalked, stabbed, and decapitated a history teacher, Samuel Paty, in a Paris suburb near the middle school where Paty worked. Soon after, a Quran-carrying Tunisian man beheaded a woman and fatally stabbed two other people in a...