'Britain siphoned off $44 trillion from India'

'A very large part of this would have come from opium.' IMAGE: Amitav Ghosh with his new book, Smoke and Ashes, after its launch at the Royal Opera House, Mumbai, July 18, 2023. Amitav Ghosh is......

Why the 2019 election is pivotal for India

The 2019 election gives the Indian public the same choice: Between growth and oligarchs (or, in our case, dynasts and crony capitalists).If we chose wisely, well and good.If not, well, we have the......

Unfinished tasks of Bharat that is India

We may be free but the taks before us remain undone. Gopal Krishna offers a checklistIn the 63rd year of British parliament's Indian Independence Act dated July 18, 1947, 'to make provision for the......

Stocks of apparel retailers are in fashion

Led by Trent, which hit its lifetime-high recently, apparel retailers have gained between 10 per cent and 36 per cent over the past three weeks. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Given the......

New method will help spot fake Facebook, Twitter posts

Researchers found that it is challenging for authors to completely conceal their writing style in their text Scientists have developed a new method for spotting people who post false reviews,......

Of hunger and its eradication

The media is celebrating Norman Borlaug as a great hunger-fighter, whose intervention with the 'Green Revolution' is supposed to have eradicated hunger in India. Obviously, the real starvation is......

Indian appointed US engineering college dean

A US university has appointed an Indian as the dean of its engineering college. C Mauli Agrawal was made the Dean of the College of Engineering by the University of Texas at San Antonio.A graduate......