Category: Op-Ed

The rise of the middle class in India has driven arguments that rejoice the growing consumer economy of the nation. In 2007, the McKinsey Quarterly reported, in a very optimistic piece, that consumption patterns pointed toward a positive economic growth trajectory (Eric B. 2007). Ashis Nandy, in his interview, places this rise in the context of…

“Meaning is never fixed, it must be constantly won”- these words by Simone de Beauvoir occupies great relevance in the context of understanding the meaning of the term ‘Rationality’. Rationality as a term is very broad and open-ended. The term is subject to constant change and academicians have varying thresholds to evaluate this term. For…

The world today, and like it always has, faces myriad challenges. And while a lot many of these challenges like climate change are relatively new, many others like poverty and inequality have always existed, even if their form and extent may have undergone continuous changes. Policymakers across the world generally are in quest of policies…

India is regarded as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It is to be noted that over the last sixty-nine years, post-independence, the role of the state has also changed towards its citizens and has somehow been in between a welfare state and a night-watchman state. As the country got its independence…

Participation of women in the public sphere, has undeniably increased over the last few decades. But the over-arching patriarchy and the denial of agency to women over several issues have stalled this progress. This article discusses the role of several social, political and economic factors that inhibit the move. Protesters march toward Trump Tower for…

The United Nation’s declaration of Article 19 of human rights in the year 1948, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”, clearly implies that freedom of speech,…

Through this series (read part 1 here), Deepanshu Mohan argues that the government has the opportunity to correct its misguided approach to spending and focus more on the social progress side of development, in the 2017 budget. “Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I have never heard of a poor person spending…

As countries around the world choose health over commercial interests, legal rights of giant corporate bodies are under grotesque violation. Swetha Meenal argues about the possible economic repercussions of the move in India, following the possible violation of Intellectual Property rights and the losses that ensue. On July 8, 2016 the six year legal battle against the government of Uruguay,…

Do you think Trump’s reimplementation of a slightly tweaked Reagonomics policy would work  for America, given the vast differences in the economy during Reagan’s era and now?  In the presidential race of United States, Donald J. Trump had a victory which has been summoning back the façade of former Republican President Ronald Reagan. Right from…

Mass media possesses the ability to not only shape public discourse but also determine the nature and direction of such discussions. This, however, is subject to contextual factors which give rise to an ‘audience’ and upon which the effect of the message is gauged. In this article, Atharva argues that the ability of mass media to…