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The whirlpool of India’s GDP
Everybody is crying out about an impending slowdown. Headlines like those of the GDP growth plummeting, the stock market nose-diving, nobody buying cars any more, and so many thousands losing their jobs…
Who runs the world?
If this world is a machine, then who is the ghost in the machine? Who runs this world is an old question with answers that keep changing with time…
The Inheritance of Independence
India has a rich tradition of worshipping a Personal God. In the Vedic tradition, God was seen in the Natural Forces – Sun, Wind, Water, and so on. Then came the Upanishads and the idea of God as an impersonal force – unseen, omnipresent….
Open a Book, Open a Mind…
India has a rich tradition of worshipping a Personal God. In the Vedic tradition, God was seen in the Natural Forces – Sun, Wind, Water, and so on. Then came the Upanishads and the idea of God as an impersonal force – unseen, omnipresent….
Times have changed, so has God
India has a rich tradition of worshipping a Personal God. In the Vedic tradition, God was seen in the Natural Forces – Sun, Wind, Water, and so on. Then came the Upanishads and the idea of God as an impersonal force – unseen, omnipresent….
Your Health, Our Commerce
The power of modern medicine in extending life is incredible! But the other side of the story of the quality of the extra years in life is dubious, if not dreadful. The 1950, the global average life expectancy was 48 years. It increased to 71.5 in 2014…
Why India should help Africa become United States of Africa
Africa is a continent across the Indian Ocean with great assets, huge opportunities as well as insurmountable challenges. Sixty percent of the land is arable, but uncultivated.
Party was good; where is the return gift?
It was in November 2018 that Anurag Srivastava, the engineer-turned-diplomat Ambassador of India to Ethiopia, took me to Dr. Getahun Mekuria, the engineer-turned-Minister of Innovation and Technology, Ethiopia
Beware of the puppeteer in your pocket
Few years ago, Indians were offered ‘free’ connectivity to the Internet. Suddenly, everyone had the opportunity to be ‘online’ – children were not interested in playing outdoors anymore and started playing video games instead…
Can Indian democracy solve real issues?
The elections are on; all news on television is breaking news, and social media is abuzz with forwarded messages. Indians celebrate elections as the festival of democracy. It has indeed become a carnival now – turncoat politicians, stale rhetoric, cliché slogans and debates about allegedly important issues which have surprisingly managed to...