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“A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. The term, derived from the ...
A global civil rights group, Civicus has taken strong exception to how critical commentaries during the “recent conflict” ...
This blog is a continuation of my story "English proficiency for empowerment: Modi’s SCOPE vision contrasts Amit Shah’s ...
While Union Home Minister Amit Shah may have asserted that soon a time would come when those speaking English in the country ...
Khadi Floods in Surat City”, published by two civil rights groups, Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti and the People's Union for Civil Liberties, Surat, states that nearly half of Gujarat's top urban ...
Recently, during a conversation with an industry representative, I was told how easy it is to set up a startup in Singapore compared to India. This gentleman, who had recently visited Singapore, ...
The report mentions that a WTE plant operates in close proximity to Sukhdev Vihar and is contributing to heating up the upper-middle-class neighbourhood. It quotes Vikas Mehta, a resident of the posh ...
Recently, I wrote a blog on retired Gujarat cadre IAS bureaucrat RP Gupta, with whom I used to interact during my Gandhinagar Sachivalaya days as the Times of India man. Written in the backdrop of the ...
For senior citizens — especially those without a family support system — ordering medicines online can be a great relief. Shruti and I have been doing this for the last couple of years, and with ...
As the now-defunct, pro-Soviet, semi-left representative of the daily Patriot and Link Newsweekly in Moscow, I had the chance to interact with foreign correspondents at Moscow's Press Centre of the ...
A decade after the withdrawal of the South Korean multinational POSCO from Odisha following large-scale protests, questions remain about whether India-based JSW Steel, which took over the project, can ...