SECTION – A alternative technologies for a climate change resilient India A good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge Poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere Management of Indian border disputes – a complex task SECTION – B Customary morality cannot be a guide to modern life “The past’ is […]
The NDA government won 2014 elections by highlighting low growth of the Indian economy due to policy paralysis and corruption during UPA regime and by promising the people “Achche Din.” Four years hence, the trust of the people in the NDA government has started dwindling for many reasons including whimsical economic policies, stopping publishing data […]
Question 2: What is back series GDP data? Why such data is needed? What are the new lights thrown by Sudipto Mundle Committee’s calculation of back series data? For hints see: Article by Prof. Arun Kumar, Courtesy the Hindu, dated August 27, 2018 The larger picture on GDP numbers The new data on GDP have raised […]
The US- China trade war caught momentum since the beginning of 2018 as US president Donald Trump started taking measures to implement his promise during electoral campaign. He had promised to pressurise China to rectify trade distortions such as US high trade deficit with China (approx $300 billion) and lack of market access to US […]
The recent outreach by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi seems to have succeeded in its principal objective: an image makeover for a niche audience. Thanks to an obsequious media and a commentariat ever willing to suspend disbelief, the event has yielded the soft, liberal gloss the RSS needed and desired. […]
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) outreach was an effort to help people understand what RSS really stands for and to demystify its conventional image of a hardline HINDU NATIONALIST OUTFIT. The list of invitees was planned to include even the sharpest critics like Rahul Gandhi along with leaders from various political parties, specifically from the opposition. The […]
The fourth BIMSTEC summit concluded in Kathmandu on August 31, 2018. At the end of the Summit a collective declaration was put forth by the member countries. In the declaration the leaders of member countries reaffirmed their strong commitment to make BIMSTEC a dynamic, effective and result-oriented regional organization. Following are the main elements of […]
Why India has been described as the engine of economic growth for the world by the IMF in its recent report in the next three decades? What are the main problems facing Indian economy that cast doubt in realizing its potential as an engine of growth? Although the Indian economy is doing pretty well in […]
Yemen is at present bruised because of ongoing political instability, civil war, water crisis and Malaria. The conflict has its roots in the failure of a political transition supposed to bring stability to Yemen following an Arab Spring uprising that forced its longtime authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power to his deputy […]
सांप्रदायिकता मूलत: एक विचारधारा है, जो यह मानती है कि किसी धर्म विशेष के लोगों के सामाजिक, राजनीतिक और आर्थिक हित समान होते हैं और दूसरे धर्म/संप्रदाय के हितों से उनका अनिवार्य टकराव होता है. किसी खास संप्रदाय के लोगों के भौतिक हित समान होते हैं – यह धारणा ही अपने आप में अवैज्ञानिक है; […]