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Two cheers to the economy, however nothing for people

08-09-2026

Two pieces of macroeconomic news have brought cheer to the economy and financial markets. India clocked a surprisingly strong GDP growth of 7.8 per cent for the first quarter of the current fiscal year.

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Success irrelevant if defined terribly & measured horribly

08-09-2026

Thanks to the Gen-Z unrest, at long last there is some much-needed focus on school education in India. There is nothing more important than imparting quality school education up to the tenth or twelfth standard to all children irrespective of the accident of the womb and circumstances at birth.

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Nature, and disasters, know no political boundaries

07-09-2026

Nepal’s catastrophic floods have proved once again that nature knows no political boundaries. The Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountains comprise one large mountain chain, extending across Pakistan, Nepal, China, and India. The rivers that emanate from these mountains, too, do not recognise borders.

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BRICS: Can India turn a diverse bloc into strategic influence?

07-09-2026

The BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 12–13 will test whether an expanded BRICS can translate its growing political weight into a coherent voice on global crises, trade, finance, and security.

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Why are IAS officers quitting Uttar Pradesh bureaucracy?

05-09-2026

Divya Mittal’s decision to quit the IAS after 13 years should worry Uttar Pradesh more than it should invite political speculation. A 2013-batch officer, she was only 42 and had a long administrative career ahead of her. Yet, on August 30, she chose to leave the service.

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New arena and old armament: Brand memory and preference

05-09-2026

Democratisation of information and access to technology has made differentiation increasingly difficult. Features that once took years of R&D and massive investment can now be copied, adapted, or sourced with surprising speed.

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A memory, a book and the politics over its publication

04-09-2026

“Publish and be damned” is the politician’s preferred response to being disparaged in a work authored by an opponent. Books and opinion pieces are often deployed to censure political rivals, but in India, they have limited impact on public opinion and voting behaviour. So, politicians tend to shrug off gratuitous criticism from other politicians. Then why the unwarranted fuss over Congress MP Sonia Gandhi’s upcoming memoir
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India, the dancing elephant, has decelerated to a waddle

04-09-2026

Not many would agree with Prime Minister Modi that the world sees India as a “bright spot of growth and hope”. For a long time, the country has been projected as a bright spot and a potential great power. Way back in 2008, British journalist Edward Luce published a book, In Spite of the Gods, The Rise of Modern India. The volume argued that in spite of being a land of many contradictions, India had huge opportunities to become a great power.
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How to fly high and save better

04-09-2026

The Prime Minister’s recent selfie message from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, delivered during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, offers an intriguing lesson in domestic economic discipline. A selfie cuts deeper than the standard issue ‘mann ki baat’, it must be stated, in keeping with the image of the age. Issuing a firm directive against non-essential foreign leisure travel, overseas destination weddings
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SIR raises many more questions

04-09-2026

When the population of a country increases, there should ordinarily be a corresponding increase in the number of voters. Births continue to outnumber deaths, and India has a large and growing population of young people. These demographic trends should be reflected in its electoral rolls. Yet, after the third phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), nearly six crore names have been deleted from the rolls in 16 states and three union territories.
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India’s Bishkek bet: Use SCO to hedge in a war-ravaged world

03-09-2026

With war still raging around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, the SCO is likely to become an alternative mechanism to find peace where Eurasia’s big three—China’s President Xi Jinping, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russia’s Russian President Vladimir Putin—have a chance to shape talks towards global peace and trade flows.

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Fix the schools, surely, but don’t break the institutions

03-09-2026

The death of Sheikh Mohammud Mafik, father of CJP volunteer Abdul Hafeez, who was part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) “School Thik Karo” campaign in West Bengal, should disturb every citizen, irrespective of political affiliation.