Pinarayi Aims For The Stars

Pinarayi is exploring the potentials of 'socialism with Indian characteristics'.The next five years under Pinarayi's watch will be a transformative period for Kerala's development, observes M K......

Herd immunity difficult to achieve: AIIMS Director

Herd immunity is "very difficult" to achieve and one should not think of it in "practical terms" in India, especially in the times of "variant strains" of COVID-19 and "waning immunity", claimed......

Rising inequality can lead to conflict

Democracies avoid serious political turbulence only so long as they ensure that the relative level of inequality between the rich and the poor does not become excessively large, says Vice President......

Hollande bestows France's highest honour on Amartya Sen

Calling Amartya Sen the ‘greatest humanist’ and a ‘great thinker’, French President Francois Hollande on Friday bestowed his country's highest decoration on the Nobel......

Just what the doctor ordered

'Indian doctors have also been wary of patients learning about drugs and brand names.''Probably harking back to the Brahmanical tradition of preserving information and knowledge from getting......

Will Trump's 'America First' kick the world into a recession?

'Trump's anti-trade, anti-immigrant rhetoric reminds me of Chinese history,' says A V Rajawade.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Since the 2008 crisis, global trade growth, in absolute terms......

If you could be in Davos...

What's hot? What's not? What's next? C P Gurnani shares his highlights of the World Economic Forum Annual Summit in Davos. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Much is happening at the World......

India has an image problem: Nobel laureate

Joseph Stiglitz says India should not bothered on inflation and instead focus on rapid growth. IMAGE: Stiglitz said with India growing in the global economy, this was not how it should be......