A new balance for the global age

Protectionist and "bring-back-control" movements will continue to flourish so long as globalisation remains leaderless, lacks a human face, and advances like a runaway train careening out of control.Sadly, there are good reasons why globalisation has become a dirty word for millions of people. The pillars of the 30-year-old Washington Consensus...

Read more

Changing face of cultivated lands

Distribution of cultivated lands in different seasons appears to show that the Aus season - spanning from March to August - has almost lost its historic importance. This is reflected by a drastic deceleration in the share of lands in that season. There was a time when the proportion of...

Read more

Ensuring safe migration for women

While migration in the country refers mainly to males, the situation is now taking a different turn with female job seekers going abroad-an altogether new phenomenon. For quite sometime, the government was not in favour of sending female migrants, and the civil society had fought the government to change its...

Read more