Why girls start dropping out of school in class 9

Education is not simply a private affair whereby we can say that good money buys good education and little money buys not-so-good education, says Shubhashis Gangopadhyay The Odisha government ran......

Crimes, punishment, tragedy and farce

In India crimes matter less than exactly who commits them. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay examines Two recent events and the various reactions they generated are worth introspection. The first one was a......

The litmus test that Budget 2018 faces

For maintaining sustained demand in domestic consumption and household investment, the economy must generate enough jobs in the formal sector, says Shubhashis Gangopadhyay. Illustration: dominic......

How governments can overcome land acquisition woes

The problem can be met, according to Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, research director of India Development Foundation, by the government tapping into its own land holdings. Within three years of the......

Why Modi's approach to financial inclusion is better

A lot of initiatives were thought out, and many of them were implemented; but a major lacuna in the drive towards financial inclusion earlier was the fact that very few of the poor had bank......

Labour law reforms must build workers' trust in management

Good companies would want to treat labour as partners; bad companies would want to exploit labour as much as possible, Effective labour laws should weed out the latter without hampering the former,......