Towards a ‘smart’ sarkar: Covid demands a new model of citizen-focussed governance May 20, 2021, 7:27 AM IST
Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for over three decades, starting her career with The Times of India, subsequently moving to Outlook magazine and The Indian Express. She has been a primetime news anchor and has also worked as Consulting Editor, The Times Of India. She is also a political commentator on the news channel ET Now. Ghose is the author of the best selling biography of Indira Gandhi, Indira, India s Most Powerful Prime Minister. She is the author of the recently published theoretical work, “Why I Am A Liberal”. LESS. MORE
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The virus gnaws at federalism: This pandemic is testing the robustness of the relationship between the Centre and states May 14, 2021, 11:29 PM IST
If Indian politics is a theatre, Tamil Nadu is a multiplex. Where cigarette flicks and dark glasses are the perennial symbols of style and substance, sycophancy does a tandava over psephology. And with the players ensconced in the ministerial thrones in Delhi, it is no longer just a southern delight. Arun Ram, Resident Editor, The Times of India, Tamil Nadu, who alternates between the balcony and the front row, says it incites as much as it excites. During the intervals, he chews on a bit of science and such saner things. LESS. MORE
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Colonisation by debt: Where China begins as an economic partner of a country, and ends up its economic master May 11, 2021, 7:36 AM IST
He is a geostrategist.
American statesman John Adams famously said, “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country: One is by the sword; the other is by debt.” China, choosing the second path, has embraced colonial-era practices and rapidly emerged as the world’s biggest official creditor.
With its international loans surpassing more than 5% of the global GDP, China has now eclipsed traditional lenders, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and all the creditor nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) combined. By extending huge loans with strings attached to financially vulnerable states, it has not only boosted its leverage over them but also ensnared some in sovereignty-eroding debt traps.
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Colonisation by debt: Where China begins as an economic partner of a country, and ends up its economic master May 11, 2021, 7:36 AM IST
He is a geostrategist.
American statesman John Adams famously said, “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country: One is by the sword; the other is by debt.” China, choosing the second path, has embraced colonial-era practices and rapidly emerged as the world’s biggest official creditor.
With its international loans surpassing more than 5% of the global GDP, China has now eclipsed traditional lenders, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and all the creditor nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) combined. By extending huge loans with strings attached to financially vulnerable states, it has not only boosted its leverage over them but also ensnared some in sovereignty-eroding debt traps.
The Quad’s economic imperative: Participating nations should cooperate and benefit beyond the security framework May 7, 2021, 7:30 AM IST
Chairman & CEO of KPMG India, Arun M Kumar has served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the US Commercial Service in the Obama Administration.
The leaders of Quad nations came together this March (virtually) for a meeting that was veritably 17 years in the making. Launched as a humanitarian response to the December 2004 Tsunami that killed and displaced millions across South and Southeast Asia and Africa, the Quad now met in the wake of another calamity – this time a worldwide one, the Covid-19 pandemic. Appropriately, they pledged to combat the pandemic together through vaccines. This sets an example of concerted action to advance a framework for a free and prosperous Asia Pacific, built on a bedrock of democracy and cooperation.