FT underlines ‘lack of innovation’ in India while BBC reports how Mamta Pathak, a 63-year-old chemistry teacher accused of killing her husband, defended herself in court.
Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Wild Fictions’ will be released on 27 January on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.
Opium played such a foundational role in India's history and society and yet we don’t hear about it anywhere in schools and colleges, says Amitav Ghosh.
Geopolitics of climate change is never discussed at meetings like COP, which are oriented towards technocratic & technological solutions, Amitav Ghosh says at ThePrint’s Off the Cuff.
In ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’, Amitav Ghosh writes that India’s forest lands have formed an internal ‘state of exception’ where normal functioning of laws is suspended.
In a note, 300 eminent personalities including Amitav Ghosh, TM Krishna & Romila Thapar said they stand in solidarity with those protesting against CAA-NRC.
Author Amitav Ghosh, who has extensively explored the history of the subcontinent, points out that there is still Eurocentrism in the study of the subject.
Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.
With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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