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The vision of a $5-trillion economy disregards India's exploded population, a problem that stands laundered to market and workforce.

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New visiting card: 'Professional Pessimist'

A sterling specimen of professional pessimism is built right into the $5-trillion goal

By Shyam G. Menon

Opinion

Antecedents of the Indo-Pacific

By T.C.A. Raghavan
Scholar Kalidas Nag with Rabindranath Tagore aboard a ship on their way to China. Nag's impulse to trace India’s links with the maritime universe had much to do with his association with Tagore.

Opinion

Another Subramanian and a new team

By Ashok V. Desai
Chief economic adviser K.V. Subramanian at an event to launch the Economic Survey 2018-19. His Economic Survey is a very good first attempt. It has some imperfections, but that is natural. Every CEA is different; so will be his style and interests, and they will be reflected in the Survey.
Women at an NRC seva kendra in Mayong, near Guwahati, wait to verify whether their names have been included in the list. In case after case, a pattern has emerged showing a combination of poor judgment, problematic data, arbitrariness or just indifference that has harmed Indians

Opinion

NRC: A major storm is brewing

By Sanjoy Hazarika
Indian supporters celebrate after New Zealand's Martin Guptill (foreground) was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah during the cricket World Cup semi-final match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Opinion

Cricket and nationalism: joined at the hip

By Mukul Kesavan
Why does standard English impose a gender requirement on the third-person singular? And why do elite cultural institutions — universities, publishers and media outlets — still encourage all this gendering?

Opinion

The perfect pronoun: singular ‘they’

By Farhad Manjoo / New York Times News Service
A CRPF jawan stands guard in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The State’s use of violence against its own citizens is seldom condoned, except by those holding political power at that moment.

Opinion

When the State lets people die

By Anup Sinha
Irom Sharmila, the iconic campaigner against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, Irom Sharmila, was rejected by Manipur’s voters who revile this draconian legislation

Opinion

Has the BJP really won the Northeast?

By Pradip Phanjoubam
A BJP worker in West Bengal writes a campaign slogan for the Lok Sabha elections.

Opinion

Bengal now an important priority for the BJP

By Swapan Dasgupta
There is no single reason for this carnage and it seems to be an abnormal coming together of multiple - normally minor - factors.

Opinion

Auto industry: Caught in the perfect storm

By Deepesh Rathore
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Comment
Residents line up for checking the final draft of NRC in Tengabasti, Assam. On July 30, 2018, the complete draft of the NRC was released, with the names of nearly 40 lakh people missing. On June 30 this year, an additional draft list was published with names of another 1.02 lakh excluded names.

Foreigner until proven Indian

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee
It used to be easier to speak truth to power. But the powerful have become terribly thin-skinned, taking umbrage at the most inconsequential insults and unleashing their might on those coming up with more damning questions against authority

Speaking truth to the powerless

By Alaka M. Basu
Sonia Gandhi with Rahul Gandhi to her left and A.K. Antony to her right.

The Congress party's secret leadership recipe

By The Telegraph
Kangana Ranaut: non-stop name-calling

Judgemental hai kya

By Upala Sen
We’ve ventured where we needn’t have. We’ve regularly made misadventures of ill-thought ventures

In desolate places, desperate men

By Sankarshan Thakur
Police outside the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong a day after it was stormed by protesters. The territory’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has been under enormous pressure because of her mishandling of the situation and for championing the extradition bill earlier

Hong Kong wages a lonely battle

By Harsh V. Pant
Editorials
India has registered the fastest reduction in poverty among 10 countries covering a wide geography whose combined population is 2 billion
India has registered the fastest reduction in poverty among 10 countries covering a wide geography whose combined population is 2 billion

Urgent action needed on children living in poverty

By The Editorial Board
Letters
India’s first dolphin research centre will hopefully bode well for the fate of the endangered Gangetic river dolphin.
India’s first dolphin research centre will hopefully bode well for the fate of the endangered Gangetic river dolphin.

At last, a dolphin research centre in India

By The Telegraph
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