Decoding the Kamala Harris Phenomenon

Kamala succeeded as she identified herself with the larger minority groups rather than narrow ethnicity, prodded by her mother who did not want to return to India, observes Ambassador T P......

Why Modi's Gujarat model has failed

As India suffers and the ruling party is on the defensive, the truth is that the only way that this wave will pass is if exponential growth of the virus stops on its own, asserts Aakar Patel.......

Will the Supreme Court declare the Aadhaar Act a black law?

Unless the judges factor in the ungovernability of technologies and their beneficial owners, present and future Presidents, prime ministers, judges, legislators and officials handling sensitive......

The Indian who challenged Einstein

'He was nominated for the Nobel Prize 9 times and several scientists wrote to the academy pointing out the injustice.'Ambassador T P Sreenivasan remembers E C G Sudarshan, the legendary physicist......

Viral Acharya's remedies for the Indian economy

Acharya emphasised that the time is "really ripe" for land, labour and agricultural reforms in India. The Indian government needs to reduce its reliance on bond markets and undertake a heavy......

Abhijit Banerjee and the mystique of the Nobel Prize

Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Photograph: Brian......

PSU banks had worst time in Dr Singh-Rajan tenure: FM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the Indian public sector banks had the "worst phase" under the combination of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former RBI governor Raghuram......

'Not a shining India, but there is a feel-good factor'

'Life will not improve overnight; it will happen in a gradual manner.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com With the Indian rupee sliding against the US dollar, it has become one of Asia's worst......