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Covid-19: Abhinav Kumar on police cooperation & Vir Sanghvi says liberals wrong on Jamaat

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from L.S. Sathiyamurthy, Aakar Patel, Vir Saghvi, Rohini Nilekani and many others.

Yamini Aiyar suggests Centre-state solidarity on Covid-19, Jahangir Aziz wants tax & GST cuts

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Dhiraj Nayyar, Sukanta Chaudhuri, and many others.

Covid-19: Suhas Palshikar sees end of old politics and Najeeb Jung on a Muslim rethink

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Sanjay Kirloskar, Harsh Mander, and many others.

Raja Mohan on China’s Covid propaganda, Ruchir Sharma says loosen restrictions post lockdown

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Mahesh Vyas, Ruchir Sharma, John B Taylor, and many others.

Covid-19: Jaffrelot says welfare state needed, Sajjid Chinoy wants income support

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Sajid Chinoy, Manu Joseph, Rahul Mazumdar, and many others.

Covid-19: Kaushik Basu on police cooperation, Harsh Mander calls lockdown ‘anti-poor’

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Kaushik Basu, Harsh Mander, Guy Ryder & many others.

Covid-19: Devi Shetty says MCI can give India 1 lakh doctors, Katju wants PM-Opposition unity

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Devi Shetty, Arun Maira, Jean Dreze, Vivek Katju & many others.

Covid-19: Sanjaya Baru says little impact on globalisation, Jagannathan on better tech

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Sanjaya Baru, Sujan R. Chinoy, Maitreesh Ghatak & many others.

COVID-19: Jehangir Aziz, Mahesh Vyas, Renu Kohli, Ajay Ranade on tackling economic costs

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Suman Berry, Jehangiz Aziz, Mahesh Vyas & many others.

Mani Aiyar says Congress weak, Drèze on cost of COVID-19 lockdown & telcos to the rescue

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Yamini Aiyar, K. Srinath Reddy, Sandipan Deb, Sunita Narain & many others.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

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.