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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi effect: Breaking the mental blocks in Bihar
May 5, 2026, 11:51 AM IST
A 15-year-old from North Bihar has done what economists struggle to model and policymakers struggle to engineer. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has walked into the recent edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) and bent the game around…
May 5, 2026, 11:51 AM IST
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Hormuz is not just a strait, it is a test of strategic nerve
April 17, 2026, 10:18 PM IST
When we hear about rising tensions in the Middle East—especially around the Strait of Hormuz—the story is usually framed as military threats or economic warfare. But this framing misses the deeper structure of the crisis….
April 17, 2026, 10:18 PM IST
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When rumours move markets faster than tankers and cylinders
March 29, 2026, 2:03 PM IST
The recent escalation of conflict in the Middle East – a region that supplies a significant portion of India’s crude oil – has reintroduced the menace of energy insecurity. For a country that imports over…
March 29, 2026, 2:03 PM IST
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India’s liberalisation bargain: Freedom to move, not to own
March 9, 2026, 1:20 PM IST
To understand how fundamentally India has changed since the economic reforms of 1991, we must look beyond GDP growth and stock market indices. In the space of three decades the economic arithmetic that governed everyday…
March 9, 2026, 1:20 PM IST
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A knot at the gate: How we confuse discipline with education
February 23, 2026, 11:27 AM IST
Last week, my son was stopped at the gates of his Class 12 board examination centre. Not because he was late, or because he lacked an admit card, but because he wasn’t wearing his school…
February 23, 2026, 11:27 AM IST
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Who gets to be called ‘sir’: Bihar’s honorific circular and the anti-republican logic of hierarchy
January 25, 2026, 11:50 AM IST
The Bihar Education Department’s recent directive—restricting teachers from addressing anyone other than the Block Education Officer (BEO) as “Sir”—appears, at first glance, to be a trivial matter of administrative protocol. In reality, it is a…
January 25, 2026, 11:50 AM IST
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The political economy of selective enforcement: When law becomes a price tag
January 12, 2026, 5:23 PM IST
In Patna, a tiny Sudha milk booth has anchored the corner of my street for more than ten years, a permanent fixture supplying the capital with Comfed’s fresh milk. Then, overnight, it was dismantled and…
January 12, 2026, 5:23 PM IST
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The air we can’t afford: Pollution, purifiers and public good
December 29, 2025, 1:29 PM IST
In the smog-choked winter of Northern India, a profound philosophical question becomes alarmingly practical: Is life worth living when the very air you breathe is toxic? Albert Camus argued that happiness—or more broadly, wellbeing—is our…
December 29, 2025, 1:29 PM IST
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The unchecked market power ultimately fails the public
December 6, 2025, 5:54 PM IST
For thousands of Indians this past week, the sight of an “IndiGo – Cancelled” notification has meant more than just a disrupted plan. It has meant missed weddings, stranded families, and economic losses. This operational…
December 6, 2025, 5:54 PM IST
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When attention is the currency: How our scrolling addiction became behavioural cocaine
November 19, 2025, 1:53 PM IST
The struggle for focus in the classroom is visibly failing; we often encounter the vacant stare and wandering minds of students or participants. The problem isn’t lack of interest or boredom, but a pervasive, algorithmic…
November 19, 2025, 1:53 PM IST
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When muscle buys representation — The criminal political economy of Indian elections
November 4, 2025, 4:12 PM IST
The recent violent death of a gangster-turned-politician during the Bihar assembly election campaign highlights a persistent puzzle in Indian politics: why do candidates with serious criminal charges consistently win elections, and why do parties nominate…
November 4, 2025, 4:12 PM IST
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Political resource curse: Why politics became a business in poor regions?
October 21, 2025, 11:44 AM IST
In Bihar’s feverish run-up to the Assembly elections, few stories capture the state’s political rot better than that of Madan Sah. The aspiring politician from Madhuban constituency gained viral notoriety after being denied a party…
October 21, 2025, 11:44 AM IST
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Bihar’s car decals: What they reveal about identity and economics
October 8, 2025, 4:13 PM IST
Drive through the chaotic streets of any town in Bihar for an hour, and you will witness a peculiar, unspoken language of power and identity. It is not spoken, but plastered on the windshields and…
October 8, 2025, 4:13 PM IST
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From hand-out to hand-up: Why Bihar’s direct transfer scheme is an economic game-changer
September 29, 2025, 12:04 PM IST
On September 26, 2025 a sort financial revolution quietly unfolded in Bihar. Nearly 7.5 million women, cutting across caste and community, found Rs 10,000 deposited into their bank accounts. The transfer — rolled out under…
September 29, 2025, 12:04 PM IST
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The South Asian Spring: Accountability on trials
September 16, 2025, 1:02 PM IST
An image from Kathmandu captures a Gen-Z protester clutching Nepal’s flag amid flames, denouncing corruption and censorship. The resonance of Rang De Basanti in this moment is telling. That film, released nearly two decades ago,…
September 16, 2025, 1:02 PM IST
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Bihar’s electoral kaleidoscope and arrow’s impossibility
September 9, 2025, 4:13 PM IST
The air in Bihar is thick with political rhetoric – promises, accusations, and triumphant proclamations fill the space. The poll bugle is all but sounded, and the state’s political landscape, fractured into a kaleidoscope of…
September 9, 2025, 4:13 PM IST
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The great Indian job queue: How government jobs are strangling our prosperity
September 1, 2025, 4:23 PM IST
A catchy Bhojpuri tune from the late 1990s, sung by Manoj Tiwari (today Member of Parliament vfrom North East Delhi), went: aashiye se ke kaike BA, aur MA mein leke admission, bachwa humaar competition deta…
September 1, 2025, 4:23 PM IST
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The hidden tax we all pay: Why civic sense is a core economic issue
August 11, 2025, 12:13 PM IST
The other day, I saw a child from one of Patna’s top-tier private schools carelessly throw a chips packet from a moving school bus onto the roadside. A mundane act of littering, witnessed countless times…
August 11, 2025, 12:13 PM IST
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India’s hidden deadweight loss: Cost of Broken Public Goods
July 28, 2025, 10:58 AM IST
The recent harrowing incident in Navi Mumbai, where a woman, blindly trusting Google Maps, drove her car into an unmarked ditch beneath a bridge, is more than just a cautionary tale for navigation apps. Consider…
July 28, 2025, 10:58 AM IST
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The Bihar murder myth: How confusing correlation with causation breeds bad policy
July 18, 2025, 2:55 PM IST
Bihar’s top police officer, the Additional Director General (ADG) drew headlines by linking a spike in murders to the dry-season lull in farming. He noted that “murders tend to rise during the months of April,…
July 18, 2025, 2:55 PM IST
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