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India’s performance in human development continues to disappoint. In this context, T N Ninan in his weekly column notes, while India needs to improve its physical infrastructure, that is no less true of social infrastructure. Capability-building has to be understood and addressed in its full meaning. Read here
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We have the historical experiences of several millennia to show that authoritarianism doesn’t work, except for the chap at the top, writes Devangshu Datta. Read here
It is very doubtful that the British monarchy would have survived unreformed for this long if not for
