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Nov 4, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy |M. Suresh Babu
Bibek Debroy—”Bibekda,” “Bibek sir,” and simply “Bibek” to his close friends and colleagues—who passed away on November 1, 2024, was a policy advisor of a different breed. He straddled the complexities of economic policymaking with ease.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty |M. Suresh Babu
Pakistan was established on a flawed and skewed idea and is run not by a civilian government but by its rogue army that has been dictating its every move and initiative (Cover Story, October 18). Even as India-Pak relations have come to naught, Pakistan continues to promote cross-border terrorism. And yet all its efforts to disturb India have failed miserably. It is time the civilian government of Pakistan and its military moved the coin first with India. This can only benefit both countries.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty |M. Suresh Babu
Francis Itty CoraT.D. Ramakrishnan, translated by Priya K NairHarperCollins IndiaRs.399This Malayalam classic is a genre-bender combining history, myth, mystery and magic. Set in present-day Kerala, war-torn Iraq, ancient Alexandria, and Renaissance Florence, the novel is a romp through history.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | M. Suresh Babu |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
With 1.4 billion people, India has surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country, according to UN estimates. As its population will continue to grow over the coming decade, India stands to gain numerous advantages, especially as developed countries grapple with declining birth rates and tight labour markets. The abundant availability of labour also makes India well placed to achieve its growth goals.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | M. Suresh Babu
ChatGPT6 hours agoCEO shares shocking job application, states: 'No wonder we have so much unemployment today'Indiatimes - Srishti B Dutta • 6hAnanya Narang, CEO of Entourage, sharing a shocking CV crafted with ChatGPT, which many found hard to believe.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | M. Suresh Babu |Amey Tirodkar |Vaishna Roy
The frequency and intensity of disputes between the Centre and States regarding allocation of resources have increased in recent years, creating persistent frictions in India’s federal system. The recurrent disputes have led to a short-term financial crisis in many States, especially those ruled by opposition parties. The current context of economic relations between the Centre and States is very different from the 1980s and 1990s.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |M. Suresh Babu |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Vivek Katju
When the British finally realised in 1947 that they must leave while they could still keep their upper lips stiff, there were close to 600 princely states in India that were not nominally part of “British India”. Just the titles of the potentates alone offer a fascinating study in variety—Maharaja, Nizam, Nawab, Mirza, Peshwa, Thakur, Baig, Khan, Jaam—not to mention their vastly different cultures, costumes, languages, and cuisines.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | M. Suresh Babu
The short Budget speech by the Union Finance Minister is marked by clarity on three aspects. First, the intentions and vision for Vikisit Bharat@2047 are spelt out through the nine priority areas, a long-term vision, to which we expect that subsequent Budgets would adhere, to accomplish these goals. Second, there is an explicit recognition of the problem of unemployment in the economy.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | V. Anand |M. Suresh Babu |Anuj Behal |Greeshma Kuthar
Central examinations are a way of measuring performance, usually against certain predefined standards, and are intended to provide information on how individual students perform relative to the national or regional student population. Given that education itself is fraught with agency problems in developing economies, the role performed by central examinations may be pivotal to how the education system works.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | T.K. Rajalakshmi |R.K. Radhakrishnan |M. Suresh Babu |Talmiz Ahmad
The controversies surrounding the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) examination, the cancellation of the UGC-NET examination, and the postponement of several others call into question the ability of the National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct large-scale examinations. While there are several issues relating to these examinations, one that has been of great concern to academics is the exclusive use of the multiple-choice question (MCQ) format.
