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India's trade contradictions

WTO experience highlights India's less-than-coherent approach towards trade

Four stages of war

At the end of the third stage of this war, the Russians will likely control a straightened and relatively defensible line in eastern Ukraine

Unexpected, but also unacceptable

Russian invasion's multi-dimensional impact, and India's meek acceptance of the damage done to its economy

Indian companies should hit sustainability targets abroad, not just at home

Activist investors on the lookout for "greenwashing" have to be careful of the unintended consequences of their choices

Numbered in the millions

It is perfectly fair to dispute the exact methodology used by the WHO's research team

A new indispensable power

No other capital should matter as much to New Delhi as Brussels

Seven questions after Ukraine

Here is a quick summary of some of the questions this crisis has posed that remain unanswered

Ukraine's globalisation lesson

Actually, interconnectedness and co-dependence preserve strategic autonomy

A long-expected invasion

Russia has been denied the quick victory it craved and stares at a long and painful period in the global doghouse

India's approaching democratic crisis

In India, we will soon face a variation of this problem, created by the differing demographic, cultural and economic trajectories of various parts of the country

Coal's problems are governance, not climate regulation

In a few short weeks, the world's leaders will gather for the United Nations' 26th Conference on Parties

Three stories make a trend

'Make in India as it stands has been a failure', says the author

A precarious pragmatism

Without the road map that an economic ideology provides, govt's search for practical ways out of specific problems has led it to appear erratic and inconsistent

Seize the initiative on climate change, Mr Modi

'This is the Indian government's duty not just to its own people but to its own notion of developing-world leadership', says the author

Repeating recent history

The poor quality of public health infrastructure should no longer surprise us. It is our democratic choice, writes Mihir S Sharma

Stopping a third wave

Unless public health is prioritised over swift re-opening, the chances are that a third wave will hit India sooner than we would like

Focus on the pandemic, not the economy

The big lesson of the second wave is that India must stop trying to prioritise economic recovery over emergence from the pandemic - any such effort is destined to fail

Five points about the second wave

What do we know about India's devastating second wave, and can we assign responsibility for it?

The Quad might have finally found a mission amid Covid-19 pandemic

The Quad's priority should be the same as the rest of the region's: promoting growth and development that is healthy and less dependent on China

There's no such thing as self-reliance

For sustained growth India needs to use foreign capital and foreign know-how to produce goods that it sells in foreign markets. What's self-reliant in that?