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India - Pakistan Relations in Retrospective: II
Age of Treachery and Coercion
by Dr. Jaipal Singh
There is an old adage "you can’t choose your neighbours". This is as true to the Indian sub-continent as elsewhere in the world. India perforce shared this destiny with Pakistan and China in the latter half of 1940s when India was partitioned giving birth to Islamic Pakistan in 1947 and People’s Republic of China (PRC) forcibly annexed Tibet in 1950. Read On
Arvind Subramanian's Guestimate of India's GDP
by Gollamudi Radha Krishna Murty
In 2015 India has changed its data sources and methodology for estimation of GDP. Since then, many have raised questions about the veracity of our GDP estimates. Economists have expressed their concern over the MCA-21 database used in GDP calculations. Over it, Center’s deferring the release of NSSO’s labor force survey that portrayed disturbing scenario has indeed weakened faith in the official data. Read On
Water Scarcity in Chennai
by Proloy Bagchi
Chennai that had adequate supply of water, the liquid gold, till recently is now going through a water crisis. The city now depends on its three desalination plants working to their more than 80% of their capacity yet falling short of its requirements. Read On
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