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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a complex political figure — but there is little doubt that his complex worldview, which defies easy categorisations, helped shape the India of today.
    Dec 23, 2020 18:30 IST
    The former PM was committed to Hindu traditions, opposed caste, sought economic freedom and was prescient about China ...read more
    Shakti Sinha
    Shakti Sinha
  • Members of different farmer organisations shout anti-government slogans during a protest against the new agricultural laws, Mumbai, December 22, 2020
    Dec 23, 2020 18:19 IST
    Pressing the pause button on the legislations will be a face-saver for the agitators, who want a repeal, and the Centre, which is loath to roll them back. Observers point to the availability of a reservoir of jurists, retired generals, academics, agriculture experts and bureaucrats who can inspire......read more
    Vinod Sharma
    Vinod Sharma
  • India must begin engaging with other governments and immunise them against the coming pretender to the Potala Palace.
    Dec 23, 2020 17:58 IST
    India, like the US, should make it clear that only Tibetans, not Beijing, can decide the issue...read more
  • In a developing country such as India, there is a continuing debate on carbon-intensive growth versus environment and health. But as The Lancet study shows, increasing pollution load is erasing the very economic and human development gains that the country aspires to achieve
    Dec 23, 2020 17:57 IST

    Delhi suffered the highest per-capita economic loss due to air pollution last year in India, according to a study published in The Lancet on Tuesday. The economic loss due to lost output from premature deaths and illness attributable to air pollution (outdoor and household) as a percentage of...read more

  • The absence of purpose limitation safeguards with respect to use of worker records by aggregators and/or government agencies exposes platform workers to the threat of discriminatory profiling.
    Dec 23, 2020 17:52 IST
    In the long term, a well-rounded data rights agenda that acknowledges privacy and personal data protection considerations as well as workers’ collective claim need to become the new 21st century frontier for the labour movement....read more
    Nandini Chami and Sadhana Sanjay
    Nandini Chami and Sadhana Sanjay
  • Farmers protest against the newly-passed farm laws, Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, December 17, 2020
    Dec 23, 2020 16:21 IST
    Its absence make farmers less receptive to pro-market reforms which add to income uncertainty...read more
    Shoumitro Chatterjee
    Shoumitro Chatterjee
  • At a time when Muslims feel a degree of insecurity about their place in Indian democracy, the PM’s words matter.
    Dec 22, 2020 18:57 IST
    Narendra Modi has done well in reaching out to minorities in recent days ...read more