kaushik.dasgupta@expressindia.com

February 23,2025 16:42:30 PM
It will have to find creative ways to reduce Delhi’s dependency on neighbouring states, and ensure that capital’s residents, especially the poor, do not run out of water during the lean season
Sun, Feb 23, 2025
February 02,2025 14:57:20 PM
Post-Covid recovery in learning, highlighted by ASER report, is a tribute to teachers. They need to be empowered, given proper training and resources
Sun, Feb 02, 2025
January 25,2025 13:41:34 PM
View from India’s neighbourhood: Immigration, election, crisis in West Asia and the implications of an inward-looking US — in Bangladesh and Pakistan, these are the issues that took centre stage as Donald Trump returned to the White House
Sat, Jan 25, 2025
January 21,2025 12:36:30 PM
World’s second GHG emitter has marched out of the deal, and with impunity. In a way Trump has shown a mirror to the UN agency that anchors climate change negotiations: It had a moral bedrock, but chose to chip away at it
Sat, Jan 25, 2025
January 19,2025 16:25:14 PM
QS report shows India’s economy has a long way to go to meet constantly shifting demands of the modern knowledge economy. India has the numbers, but a large section of its labour force isn’t market ready. Industry leaders need to pool in their brains with policy makers to address this deficit
Sun, Jan 19, 2025
December 29,2024 17:34:25 PM
Let 2025 be a year when people have greater chances of fulfilling aspirations, breathe better air, and their homes, offices and public spaces are safe
Mon, Dec 30, 2024
December 22,2024 15:27:19 PM
The magnitude of the challenge is such that it will require pooling in diverse initiatives and expertise. Sledgehammer approaches, intolerant of criticism, will not work
Sun, Dec 22, 2024
December 15,2024 17:07:00 PM
In 2025, the country should find resolve and resources to monitor air quality in all cities, towns, and villages, not just metros
Sun, Dec 15, 2024
November 28,2024 12:38:46 PM
Behind Sidhu’s "home remedies" comments, lies the innately human urge to save others from suffering. The problem is that in a social-media universe, where lines between the prescriptions of the specialist and the citizen doctor are blurred, this impulse can do more harm than good
Mon, Dec 02, 2024
November 17,2024 20:38:43 PM
Jhansi hospital fire is a reminder of the shocking lack of priority accorded to safety in Indian cities
Sun, Nov 17, 2024
November 10,2024 18:15:27 PM
A climate leadership vacuum looms. India could fill in. At CoP 29, it will need to reach out to small island states, most vulnerable to global warming
Sun, Nov 10, 2024
November 08,2024 17:41:31 PM
I was the only one in my class of 30 who had the ailment; today, one in three children has it. Perhaps I did not own or care for my city enough to do justice to my privilege, education and lived experiences.
Fri, Nov 08, 2024
November 05,2024 12:02:05 PM
Unlike Trump, Harris doesn’t dismiss the climate challenge. But lack of climate agenda and uneven track record of the Biden administration, where she was vice-president, should cause concern about US ability and willingness to meet climate mitigation targets.
Wed, Nov 06, 2024
October 27,2024 18:38:13 PM
Pollution control requires diverse actors to put heads together -- governments, farmer representatives, doctors, academics. Where is the institutional mechanism for this?
Sun, Oct 27, 2024
September 29,2024 05:30:37 AM
The book relies on newspaper reports, interviews, testimonies before the police, National Archives documents and depositions before the P Jaganmohan Reddy Commission, that was set up to probe the episode, to lay out the intricacies of the case.
Sun, Sep 29, 2024
September 23,2024 18:18:02 PM
With Bangladesh easing export restrictions, debates on whether the Padma fish scores over the Ganga variety will again be part of Durga Puja fare. But Brand ilish needs conversations on responsible dining.
Sat, Sep 28, 2024
September 20,2024 12:09:56 PM
In another world, also fraught with deep inequalities and faultlines, the episode could have played out differently. With technology not playing middle-man and face-to-face interactions having little more role in quelling fights, there was a chance that the driver would have been reprimanded severely, made to apologise to the student and the skirmish would have ended there
Fri, Sep 20, 2024
August 30,2024 14:01:30 PM
Oasis shaped, and was shaped by the times when the UK was emerging from the grim Thatcherite years.
Sat, Aug 31, 2024
July 31,2024 14:08:32 PM
Behind India’s monsoon woes lie poor civic maintenance, ageing infrastructure and the failure of policymakers to make essential connections between urban planning and climate change.
Fri, Aug 02, 2024
July 20,2024 12:11:49 PM
A new book tells the refreshing story of a lesser known freedom fighter and four people closest to him during the movement: Sarojini Naidu, Syud Hossain, Syed Mahmud and Aruna Asaf
Sat, Jul 20, 2024
June 30,2024 19:39:39 PM
A developed country is much more than size of its GDP. It’s built around institutions that respect knowledge and accord dignity to people.
Sun, Jun 30, 2024
June 23,2024 19:54:38 PM
Lakhs of students spend their best years enrolled in coaching classes that do nothing other than teach rote learning techniques. The demand supply gap hurts the disadvantaged – in terms of caste, class, gender, geography – the most
Mon, Jun 24, 2024
June 22,2024 07:05:40 AM
A senior school student, very likely a voter soon, deserves knowledge that can help make connections. Acquainting learners with what happened on December 6, 1992, or Gujarat 2002 could be a stepping stone towards understanding how distrust between communities turns into rage
Sat, Jun 22, 2024
June 09,2024 20:04:24 PM
Coalition dharma makes it imperative to take everyone on board. That could lay the grounds for more sustainable reform
Mon, Jun 10, 2024
May 23,2024 13:27:42 PM
In the midst of a debate on the boundaries that IPL owners should maintain in their interactions with players, Khan’s respect for the professional shows how it ought to be done
Fri, May 24, 2024





