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COVID-19 and limits of political accountability

Irfan Nooruddin

With some leaders getting off lightly, the deeper challenges to democratic control of politicians need to be understood

Put the farm laws on hold, uphold farmers’ rights

Tamil Nadu politics after the matriarch, patriarch

Narendra Subramanian The State’s political future depends crucially on how parties engage changing social forces, with the DMK better placed

Laying the foundation for faster growth

C. Rangarajan The decline in 2020-21 caused by the pandemic can be addressed only if the Indian economy grows at 8% in 2021-22

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COVID-19 and limits of political accountability

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Put the farm laws on hold, uphold farmers’ rights

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Tamil Nadu politics after the matriarch, patriarch

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Laying the foundation for faster growth

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MSP — the factoids versus the facts

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In agri-reforms, go back to the drawing board

Privacy, a fundamental right the state must protect

An open and transparent government that also respects every citizen’s right to privacy is not a contradiction

A protocol of deference that is plainly injurious

From alleged judicial over-reach, India seems to be settling for a spell of judicial self-abnegation vis-à-vis the executive

Punjab, Haryana need to look beyond MSP crops

In tackling agri-crises, these core Green Revolution States must shift to high value crops and promote non-farm activities

Firing a warning shot across big tech’s bows

Lawsuits and regulatory moves in the West suggest that their easy, unchecked expansion may be coming to an end

A sector that needs to be nursed back to health

Nursing education in India suffers poor quality of training, inequitable distribution, and non-standardised practices

The roots of the agricultural crisis run deep

Declining agricultural incomes and flagging state support to agriculture are some of the key structural issues

Pointing the finger at parliamentary scrutiny

The demand for repeal of laws passed by Parliament only shows a serious lapse in the management of legislative work

The right political moves in Telangana

It is advantage BJP as the TRS’s model of governance is undermining the regional spirit and creating a vacuum in politics

All is now fair in India’s ailing pedagogic spaces

Reconciling the new technological environment with child psychology and educational theory has not been easy

Thousand days of nutrition, and a billion dreams

The single greatest threat that blocks the promise of India at a foundational level is malnutrition

The reality of an India at the crossroads

Faced with the perception of the country becoming a ‘diminishing democracy’, policymakers must take note of the drift

The dangers of misplaced optimism

The government’s economic recovery hype is off track and this is not a time for fiscal conservatism

In Stanford ranking, hope for Indian science

Its grading of scientists could provide much-needed impetus in the backdrop of the National Research Foundation plan

A ‘duet’ for India’s urban women

Public works could provide valuable support to the urban poor, especially if women get most of the jobs

A mirage sold as a panacea for the unorganised sector

The labour codes will only better India’s ‘ease of doing business’ ranking instead of improving conditions of employment

There is nothing new about Trumpism

The strength of it can easily be located in the sum total of American civilisational weaknesses

The many layers to agricultural discontent

The Farm Acts that are the focus of the farmers’ protest bear variously on the different strata of the farming community

Personal choices, the Constitution’s endurance

The Allahabad High Court verdict in ‘Salamat Ansari’ is a reminder of the Constitution’s most cherished values

In farmers’ protests, the core is procurement

Farmers of Punjab and Haryana need the MSP-procurement system, but the government needs it even more for the PDS

Questionable data, little room for exuberance

Using the latest quarterly estimates to point to an economic rebound seems flawed; recovery is likely to remain modest

Behind China’s wolf warrior diplomacy

Xi Jinping is deepening a ‘Chinese Communist Party-state’ brand of nationalism for a domestic and global audience

The pernicious idea of exclusive belonging

It erases the multiplicity and fluidity necessary for self-development and cultural growth

The perils of deregulated imperfect agrimarkets

The Farm Acts were legislative misadventures, while much more is needed to address the genuine fears of farmers

Seasoned faces who could aid the return of America

In line with his agenda of restoring America’s place in the world, Biden is banking on Obama-era liberal internationalists

Clear the fog, draw up a clear vaccination policy

India’s COVID-19 control plan of actions can be the nucleus for building a much-needed public health infrastructure

The global epidemic of alternative truths

Untroubled by factuality and diversity, privilege and power are fashioning public opinion in troubled democracies

Rein in the vaccine nationalism, the profiteering

The WTO has a role in getting pharma firms and countries to treat vaccines and life-saving medicines as a public good

A clear reading of the Ayurveda surgery move

India needs its Ayurveda graduates, including surgeons, to improve the common man’s access to decent health care

Refining trade union strategies to strike a chord

With labour law reforms set to change industrial relations, trade union responses must include social dialogue too

Jobs, exports and the trade pacts link

India needs to shed its exaggerated fears of trade agreements to create new jobs — the country’s biggest challenge

Say ‘no’ to corporate houses in Indian banking

The banking sector needs reform but the recommendation of corporate-owned banks is neither ‘big bang’ nor risk-free

The migrant worker as a ghost among citizens

A new publication contends that their lockdown misery was no anomaly but an effect of exclusion from full citizenship

Some of the COVID-19 mortality was avoidable

In India, the varying death rate across States during the pandemic points to the neglect of health in public policy

No Minister, the trade agreement pitch is flawed

Citing trade agreements for India’s below-potential growth appears to be a way to deflect blame for policy errors

In vaccine race last lap, the key steps for India

Linked to the government plan of supply from multiple sources is the need for a concise recipient prioritisation policy

India’s no to RCEP could still be a no

The circumstances under which New Delhi had distanced itself from the RCEP negotiations have hardly improved

India’s mask of economic liberalism is off

Trade protectionism seems to be the official policy, with the government following the path of its ideological leanings

A world in chaos and a moment of truth

Informational autocracy is the latest danger that threatens democracies

Amid a judicial slide, a flicker of hope on rights

It is reassuring that there is a signal from the Supreme Court about thinking and speaking about personal liberty

Decoding Biden’s presidency, for India and the world

His major preoccupation could be the difficult U.S. domestic agenda; India must revert to pluralist multi-alignment

Under Biden, security empathy, liberal antipathy

Earlier, India had the empathy of the liberals while there was some antipathy in the American security establishment

The right lessons from Pulwama and Balakot

The events of February 2019 need to be extricated from the electoral straitjacket and boastful political utterances

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