My GDP bigger than yours: Thanks to release of back series for economic growth, netas finally debate relevant issues

Earlier this week, this newspaper made an interesting comparison of GDP growth under various prime ministers of India. This came after the National Statistics Commission revised the methodology for calculating GDP, which in turn led...

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AFSPA is not a licence to kill, charges of extrajudicial killings by security forces must be investigated

The Supreme Court will hear, next week, the petition of 356 serving personnel including 74 army officers, who have questioned the legality of any action taken against them in states, particularly Manipur and Jammu &...

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The real way to celebrate Janmashtami

By Radhanath Swami Janmashtami is the festival commemorating the appearance of Krishna in this world. He is believed to have appeared 5,000 years ago in a prison cell in Mathura. Janmashtami represents the appearance of...

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Happiness on earth: Insights on this elusive entity from the World Happiness Report, and other places

 Are you happy? It’s a question that can leave many of us confused. Yes, we might say but, well, on the whole. Or no, that back pain, or a more debilitating illness, is excruciating. Life...

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Scrap sedition: Law Commission rightly questions draconian law

Given habitual and wanton misuse of sedition laws by governments, the outgoing Law Commission’s questioning of the law criminalising sedition in the Indian Penal Code could not have been more timely. Its ringing defence of...

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Shirty rules: In tennis men have a topless advantage

The Grand Slams seem to keep breaking into a sweat over women’s bodies. Serena Williams is being banned from wearing a catsuit at future French Opens and Alize Cornet has received a US Open code...

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What story are you telling yourself?

Each one of us on this earth is an excellent storyteller. Once Laddu Pinto – a middle school student – fared poorly in half-yearly examinations. When his parents started questioning him and wanted to understand...

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GDP data for April-June quarter have positive implications for economy

An quick reading of the gross domestic product data for the April-June quarter of 2018-19, which was unveiled a short while ago, is that there is a strong growth impulse  in the economy. The GDP...

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How to make India a more tax compliant society

Finance minister Arun Jaitley defended the criticism that Narendra Modi government has been subjected to on demonetization by writing that “the larger purpose of demonetisation was to move India from a tax noncompliant society to...

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India should use jugaad to win even more medals in the next Asiad 😜

India has already picked up an impressive tally of medals in the ongoing Asian games.  The grit and determination shown by all our sportspeople, and not just by the medal winners, has been truly inspirational,...

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Has Indian athletics turned the corner? The Asiad performance does give hope

The Indian athletics contingent has literally blazed the track and field with its best ever overseas performance in an Asian Games. India’s haul of 19 medals (7 gold, 10 silver and 2 bronze) in athletics...

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Monster Inside?

Machines are talking to each other…they are devising their own language and my god! It is all out of control! Technology that man created is turning on its master. It’s a monster! It will enslave...

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DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Let’s go for Silver

The ongoing Asian Games in Jakarta has shone the spotlight, yet again, on an interesting aspect about us. We love gold jewellery so much that we’ll have biscuits & tea for breakfast just to save...

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Bureaucrat’s fix: Social media isn’t the lynch mob’s oxygen. Improve law and order, excise hate from politics

A panel of secretaries tasked with studying the spate of lynchings has found a convenient bugbear: social media. In a report to a Group of Ministers, the bureaucrats are reported to have stressed on the...

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Out of court: Supreme Court orders already overworked judges to inspect all places of worship 😜

With a 3.1 crore backlog of pending cases and 23,000 vacancies, judges will now have to do a ‘judicial audit’ of all temples, mosques and churches. – TOI news report. Two judges bemoaning the extra...

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Vajpayee’s lost legacy: The space for the liberal Hindu is shrinking in today’s politics

In the last fortnight the ruling BJP has made every effort to make sure that memorials of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee are raised to the same heights as Nehru-Gandhi memorials once were. From...

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Even-mindedness brings with it happiness

By Nayaswamis Jyotish & Devi Students returning to school in Delhi this term are finding a new class added to their schedule: Happiness. Similarly, this year at Yale University, a course offered to undergrads on achieving...

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DeMon demon: The most ill-considered economic move by the Modi government has been demonetisation

Following the release this Wednesday of Reserve Bank of India’s annual report of 2017-18, it is clear the government is clutching at straws by claiming that the objectives of the November 2016 demonetisation exercise have...

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‘Addicts belong in hospitals, not jails … putting ganja in the same category as cocaine has led to even more harm to society’

The chief ministers of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have come together to jointly fight the drug menace. In this context, Dr Atul Ambekar of the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, AIIMS New Delhi,...

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An Important Cog: An India-Vietnam-Taiwan axis could add to the multipolarity narrative in the Indo-Pacific

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s recent visit to Vietnam again signified growing enhancement of bilateral ties between New Delhi and Hanoi. And apart from holding wide-ranging discussions with her Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh –...

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