-The Hindu With the world's most toxic air, Delhi struggles to breathe. Although its challenges are many, going forward, the city must learn a few basic lessons from the past The summer of 1857 is well-etched in the Indian psyche as the summer of revolt, of a mutiny against the British. Earlier that year, however, there was a smaller initiative that bears recollection - for it speaks of an unfinished agenda of...
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Pranab Bardhan, emeritus professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley interviewed by Pramit Bhattacharya
-Livemint The development economist on the Modi government's initiatives and his stand on them, and MGNREGS The Narendra Modi-led government should consider replacing inefficient subsidies with a basic monthly income for all citizens, says Pranab Bardhan , emeritus professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Bardhan, who recently sparred with economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya in a debate over the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS),...
More »Disaster in progress -Indira Jaising
-The Indian Express On the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, memories of the victims' suffering surface once again. One is at a loss for words to describe what happened on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984. Was it an accident? Or was it industrial genocide? We will never know what it was, since no investigation was conducted on what caused water to leak into 41 tonnes of higly toxic...
More »Contamination still hounds Bhopal residents -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Hindu The clean-up of the plant is pending due to legal disputes Thirty years after India's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in its immediate aftermath and continued to kill people in the...
More »LPG subsidy may soon go for the rich, Arun Jaitley says
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: If you are economically well off, you may soon have to pay full market price for your cooking gas refills. "The next important decision India will have to take is whether people like me ... (are) entitled to get our LPG (liquefied cooking gas) subsidy," finance minister Arun Jaitley said here on Friday. "I think the sooner we are able to take these decisions as to who...
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