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Jaggi Vasudev says he’s more left than you think, Ashok Desai says slogans won’t ease crisis

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Neelkanth Mishra, Jaggi Vasudev, Jahangir Aziz, Meeta Sengupta and more.

Haseeb Drabu sees no bailout, Bibek Debroy on Crusoe economy, Shankar Acharya says open up

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Sanjaya Baru, Harsh Mander, Jayati Ghosh, Prabhat Patnaik, Bibek Debroy and more.

Renu Kohli calls labour reforms a caricature, Shyam Saran on China’s move to digital money

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Prashant Bhushan, Shyam Agarwal, Shyam Saran, R. Jagannathan and more.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta on labour reform & Vivek Katju on India’s Islamophobic image

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Pratap Bhanu Mehta, C. Raja Mohan, Brinda Karat and more.

Dr Devi Shetty wants districts as ‘centre of action’, Manu Joseph says treat poor like rich

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Prem Shankar Jha, Rakesh Sood, Renana Jhabvala and more.

Madan Lokur’s vision for high-tech judiciary, SY Qureshi on elections during pandemic

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Tushar Kant Joshi, Harsha Thirumurthy and more.

Pratap Mehta on ‘intelligent drinking’ & Arvind Subramanian on 3 watersheds of Covid-19

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Mohandas Pai, Ela R. Bhatt, G Chandrashekhar and more.

Brahma Chellaney wants a Covid confession from China, Jagannathan’s 80:20 theory for virus

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Mohandas Pai, Ela R. Bhatt, G Chandrashekhar and more.

Prasoon Joshi on being fair to domestic helpers, Valmik Thapar blames China for ignoring nature

Impasse caused by pandemic offers room to rethink board exams, find alternatives Disha Nawani | Professor & dean, School of Education, Tata Institute of Social...

Ashutosh Varshney sees globalisation in ‘retreat’, Tilak Devasher on Pak’s war on media

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Sunita Narain, Ashima Goyal, Rajat Kathuria and more.

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.