How does India’s Budget fare on sustainable development?

India’s new government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced its first annual Union Budget on Saturday. The budget was hailed as pro-poor and pro-growth, bu...

Activists Claim India’s Free HIV/AIDS Program Is In ‘Shambles’

India has run out of critical supplies under its state-run HIV/AIDS program, activists say, leaving tens of thousands of infected patients without access to life-saving dru...

215 million indians have zero assets

As PM Modi makes it clear that “inclusion” is the new emerging political mantra in the country, a new report estimates that 215 million Indians are excluded fro...

India’s soft power has grown, but no thanks to the government

We are all aware that India is fast emerging as a major economic power. Although there is talk of India also being an important “soft power” the fact is we are ...

​​INDIA TAKES ON THE WORLD RECORD

IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL MISSION ‘BETI BACHAO, BETI PADHAO’

The Indian Open Water swim team “The Se...

Will Companies Solve Climate Change Before Countries?

I just spent a week at the 15th Annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in India, a four-day eco-extravaganza for hundreds of participants from government, business, ac...

Modi was silent when he had to speak and spoke when he needn’t have

The BJP’s troubles began when the prime minister continued in the sloganeering and promise mode of electioneering for too long.

The ...

The gender of a sound byte

Dear Barkha, This is taking up from where we last left off. The last time we met at a dinner party in Mumbai, you had enquired why I always turned down requests to appear o...

Follow Narendra Modi On Climate Change, Says Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hollywood action-movie star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today said he would be a “terminator” for climate change and asked state govern...