Mukul AsherIntroductionIn presenting the 2023-24 Union Government Budget, the Finance Minister stated that this is the first year of India’s Amrit Kaal, the 25-year period ending in 2047 when India will complete 100 years of independence. In the Amrit...
Anil TrigunayatHackers seem to have acquired a new heft and respect even from the State actors. Hackathons are conducted to crack the codes. Friends spy not only on enemies and adversaries but also on friends, proving that there are...
Joseph Mathai and Sandeep ChahcraThe longing for home is known to every person who is fond of Hindi film songs. Ask them the song’s name, and they will speak of Manna Dey’s voice, Prem Dhawan’s lyrics, and Balraj Sahni...
Joseph Mathai and Sandeep ChahcraThe longing for home is known to every person who is fond Manna Dey’s voice singing “ay mere pyaare watan…”. If we see home as a nation, what has this meant over the centuries, and...
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun KumarAbstractThe “first budget of Amrit Kaal (2022-2047)” recognizes Indian cities’ growth potential and seeks to create “sustainable cities for tomorrow” through infrastructure financing and governance reforms. The budget established a Rs 10,000 crore per year Urban...
Anil TrigunayatGeo politics is the art of the possible as they say there are no permanent friends or enemies but only interests. But in today’s fast changing global and regional dynamic especially in the volatile West Asia which is...
Nilanjan BanikRecently, numerous articles have been written on the demise of the dollar. The argument is that China, the second largest economy after the US, is increasingly convincing the world’s largest suppliers of energy, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela, to trade in...
T K ArunIn 1994, when Kim Jong-il succeeded his father Kim Il-sung as the supreme leader of North Korea, ET’s cartoonist E P Unny drew the communist theoretician E M S Namboodiripad trying to hide his totally naked self...
Harsh V Pant & Aditya G ShivamurthyWhile India-China competition and Chinese assertiveness have triggered some changes in Bhutan’s foreign policy, recent developments suggest that continuity still looms large in Bhutan-India relationsEarlier this month, Bhutan’s king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk was on...
Anil TrigunayatAsk any food security expert, and they will tell you: the global impact of the Green Revolution cannot be overstated.While growing up one of the words I heard the most was The Green Revolution which changed India’s agricultural...
