Why girls start dropping out of school in class 9

Education is not simply a private affair whereby we can say that good money buys good education and little money buys not-so-good education, says Shubhashis Gangopadhyay The Odisha government ran......

Crimes, punishment, tragedy and farce

In India crimes matter less than exactly who commits them. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay examines Two recent events and the various reactions they generated are worth introspection. The first one was a......

Labour law reforms must build workers' trust in management

Good companies would want to treat labour as partners; bad companies would want to exploit labour as much as possible, Effective labour laws should weed out the latter without hampering the former,......

The litmus test that Budget 2018 faces

For maintaining sustained demand in domestic consumption and household investment, the economy must generate enough jobs in the formal sector, says Shubhashis Gangopadhyay. Illustration: dominic......

Reaction to Gupta shows maturity that India lacks

The nuanced US reaction to Rajat Gupta's fall shows greater maturity than the extremes we go to in India, writes Shubhashis Gangopadhyay. Rajat Gupta has been sentenced to two years of......

Economists favour 50-bps rate rise

Economists and industry experts favour a stronger dose of policy rate rise in May, as inflation continues to remain stubbornly high.Most economists who met top officials of the Reserve Bank of......