Dilemmas of self-rule

In Jharkhand, movement for self-rule is about seeking better governance and community rights over natural resources

A year of leadership failure

The young, old and an unequal world

Younger, meaner, more self-indulgent, angry and insecure in a climate risked world. We don’t deserve this

The Behaviour Puzzle

Stigmatising the powerless is not the way to a cleaner India, but only a more ashamed India

The ultimate subversive

Former President K R Narayanan made power good

Open letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee

Migration: I am biased, for people

We must not build a divisive agenda on migration, otherwise it will lead to endless spread of hatred

Ode to politics of consensus: Sheila Dikshit

It would be really unfortunate if we let the Sheila Dikshit way of politics go out of fashion

Brexit exposes globalisation's fatal flaw

It is clear that the world desperately needs a globalisation model that will work for all and not just some

I really have no problem with the World Bank

Ordering a new world

The battle of the Indian bulge -- I

It's dark outside the TV grab

COVID-19: Let’s not paper over this time

As India restarts the economy, its top agenda should be public infrastructure and health services

After officialdom

Development is not a road

The battle of the Indian bulge -- II

Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit

Narmada, Bhopal are issues of democracy, fair deals

The poor? They are the government's problem

COVID-19: Headline management will not work

If the poor are hit today, the rich — who started this transmission in the first place in most cases — will be …

Global non-cooperative movement

Insecurity in the supply of basic materials, from energy to food, is making countries shun global interdependence and shut doors

Post COVID-19 pandemic: Hybrid-work model in the new-normal

We discuss the digital divide, but the new-normal induced by COVID-19 should make us discuss the living divide as well

New global order (or disorder)

Fixing weaknesses in democracy is not about less, but more democracy

Another dismissal is possible