COP Ensuring the 28th Defense of the Well-Off Lifestyle
For COP to make progress, the agenda of both the rich nations and the ruling classes of the developing countries has to be cutting wasteful consumption.
Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar, Malcolm S Adiseshiah Chair Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi and author of ‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis: Impact of the Coronavirus and the Road Ahead‘.
Critics are valuable and fair
A brief but powerful meditation on the politics of reasonableness and unreason.
IS it not reasonable to expect reasonableness in discourse?
A doctor friend set me thinking when she commented that such and such person is reasonable. In TV debates, after a critical comment, the anchor often asks the panelist, is there one thing that the policy maker has done right? In heated conversations, often it is said: be balanced— which is similar to saying be reasonable.
Marginal Uptrend: Exploring Minimal Growth in Tax Payer Compliance
The income tax data released recently points to the skewed nature of income distribution in the country, with only about 0.68% people paying effective taxes.
Challenges Faced by India Technologically to be at Par with Developed Nations
For a developed India, bulkier investment and technological changes are required to keep up in the race with other developed nations. In doing so, the country should not be afraid of failure. After all, Chandrayaan 3 was made possible by the lessons from the failure of Chandrayaan 2.
Truth of Government Official Claims
The BJP uses official data to buttress its tall claims on growth, inflation and other issues. But even those in the government have expressed doubts over the data. One cannot deny that the ground reality is at variance from the rosy depiction by the government.
Consumerism: The Adversary in the Battle Against Climate Change
UN Secretary General Guterres in his opening remarks at the start of the UN General Session in September 2022, cautioned the world about global dysfunction and how nations are not tackling the big adversaries caused due to consumerism facing it.