Battling china: Why India cannot be an economic superpower
The prevailing belief among observers was that the authoritarian Chinese regime would mismanage its economy, while democratic India would emerge as...
A Blueprint from India: Case for women’s economic empowerment
India’s self-help groups have advanced gender equality and contributed to a sharp decline in poverty over the past 15 years. The task now is to...
Waning relevance: Davos Man has a people problem
His natural habitat, the hyper-globalised world of the past half-century, is shrinking, and he has gone from skiing in the Swiss Alps to skating on...
Expertise of thought: The age of verbiage
Our social-media-driven news ecosystem is virtually drowning us in expert opinion, inundating us with so much verbiage that little room is left for...
Right moves: The need for morality in foreign policy
First, we must never turn a blind eye to other governments’ human-rights abuses.
Cut from the same cloth Whose rule of law?
The purported differences in kind between the Global North and the Global South have always been a product of colonial triumphalism, rather than...