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Water-wisdom for climate change

We need to scale up our work to invest in local water systems to capture every drop of rain so that we can build local resilience against drought

Downstream from the war in Ukraine

It implies that India needs to enhance military spending

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That Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our minds is a big, positive change

Three years since the changes in Article 370, some things have improved, while some have gotten worse

Fiscal policy should return to fundamentals

The longstanding argument that go-go Keynesian fiscal stimulus is the answer to every imaginable economic shock has been exposed as bankrupt

Remembering Hiroshima's floating lanterns

As a self-anointed Nipponophile, I have always admired the Japanese sense of tradition

Split season

Fans are also being consumed by the impact the interruption will have on the contenders to domestic and European titles

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Rethinking the coal issue

What the government needs to realise is that coal demand cannot be ignored for at least three decades, if not more

What the doctor saw

What is striking is how discreet Dr Mathur has been in regard to Mrs Gandhi's health. He could easily have written a completely different book 30 years after her death. But he didn't

The tug of war

Beyond a near-term reversal, foreign selling and domestic buying of Indian equities may resume

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An old, new bull market?

Rising inflation, rising interest rates, and slow growth together act as a cold wet blanket on the stock market

Hail the rise of digital humanities

…and no, it's not just a geek invasion of humanities

How much rate hike this week: 50 or 35 bps?

I would root for a 50-bps hike for now to demonstrate the RBI's resolve to fight inflation and stem deprecation of the rupee. Then it can cross the river by feeling the stones

Understanding politics via economic theory

Then you have the Stackelberg type of competition, where one firm is the market leader and other firms are followers

In a league of its own

When leagues become mainstream, India playing Zimbabwe in a bilateral series might become a thing of the past

Nobel for AI: A matter of time?

Understanding how proteins are folded, or likely to be folded is, therefore, critically important

Taking on Modi's BJP

The future challenger to Narendra Modi would be somebody who can bring the Hindus and Muslims together again. The Hindus as Hindus, not broken caste groups

When $640 billion is not enough

To be fair, the RBI has broadly done well in terms of managing the currency since the outbreak of the pandemic