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Why are so few economists willing to ask awkward questions about India’s development trajectory?
At a time of rising economic uncertainty, India needs economists willing to ask uncomfortable questions. Why are so few doing so? India’s current account deficit narrowed to 0.7% of the gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of the 2025-’26 financial year. Reports say this improvement is likely the result of remittances from abroad after…
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‘Welcome to the Jungle’ review: A non-stop hodgepodge
The third film in the Welcome series gathers so many actors together that you may need to make notes to keep track of who’s doing what. Ahmed Khan’s Welcome to the Jungle stars Akshay Kumar in the main surrounded by Suniel Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Disha Patani, Jacqueline Fernandez and enough other…
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How Delhi’s Daryaganj Sunday Book Market provided welfare infrastructure for the city’s students
Daryaganj Sunday Book Market draws Delhi’s vast and constantly circulating student population as reliably as any institution in the city. It serves not only students from major public universities such as Delhi University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Ambedkar University, but also millions of school-going children and young people enrolled in coaching centres across the capital…
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The RSS man at the centre of Ram temple trust’s controversial run in Ayodhya
Four kilometres from Ayodhya’s Ram temple, a house has become somewhat of a legend in the last six years. The white three-storied building in an upscale neighbourhood in Faizabad, the twin town of Ayodhya, stands out for an odd addition: an unpainted, cuboid protrudes awkwardly from its front. It is a long, vertical shaft constructed…