Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Thursday, September 07, 2023

India, that is Bharat: A short history of the nation’s names, from the Rig Veda to the Constitution of India

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  There is speculation of an official change in the name of the country from India to Bharat, even though Article 1 of the Constitution uses...
Monday, June 19, 2023

GoI-UNSDCF 2023-2027

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  The Government of India (GoI) and the United Nations (UN) have joined hands to strengthen their commitment towards sustainable development...
Monday, January 09, 2023

Context is key

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  India is a pre-modern, pluralist society At the Tory conference in the United Kingdom (October 2022), the home secretary, Suella Braverman...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Counting India’s poor: Numbers suggest the need for a welfare state

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  Madan Sabnavis writes: In such a situation, it is but natural that the government has to assume the role of a welfare state. But the focus...
Friday, August 12, 2022

A fond birthday wish for a land that was once home

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  ndia has some of the wealthiest people in the world and many beauty queens. Indian food, movies, sitar music and yoga practices are well a...

Storm shelter: The battle for the Ideas of India

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  Sometimes, when I think of India on the day it was born, August 15, 1947, I have the image of people starting to erect a huge,open-sided t...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Colonial mentality’: A misinterpreted notion that stitched together a nation

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  India as a country might have existed even without colonial rule, but would that have been a ‘modern nation’? There's no simple answer...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

How technology is transforming e-commerce experience in the new India

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  The term ‘Incredible India’ seems apt when one considers the sheer diversity of languages, cultures and ethnicities across the country. Fo...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Why do Indians do so well abroad?

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  Vikram Patel writes: It has less to do with their Indian heritage and more to do with Western countries’ commitment to diversity, equity a...
Friday, December 10, 2021

The rich-poor gap in India

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  The latest World Inequality Report flags India as a poor and very unequal country, with the top 10% holding 57% of national income in 2021...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Creating an inclusive welfare architecture

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  Cover all of India’s poor; and merge welfare programmes under one umbrella scheme The recently announced Atmanirbhar 3.0 package offers im...