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Patralekha Chatterjee
About the AuthorPatralekha Chatterjee
Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its place in The World By Alyssa Ayres OUP, pp 360 Rs 695.Books
    Acquainting American readers with Asia's third-largest economy

    Ayres needs no introduction to those who follow international affairs.

    6 April 2018 12:18 AM IST

    CBSE students protest over the paper leak, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Leak wake-up call: Rejig exams, junk cramming

    In the short term, everything possible needs to be done to ensure that subsequent batches of students do not face a...

    5 April 2018 6:13 AM IST

    Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj during an interaction with women and girl students at a Women Townhall in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    No jobs at home: Why war zones lure Indians

    Successive Indian governments have successfully evacuated stranded Indians from conflict zones.

    22 March 2018 12:58 AM IST

    Remains of the five-feet-tall statue of Lenin which was allegedly demolished by a pay-loader at Belonia in South Tripura district on Monday afternoon and was thrown at the nearby jungle. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Chalo Paltai! Smashing statues won't bring jobs

    Some have also said Lenin was a foreigner and therefore not deserving of a statue in this country.

    8 March 2018 12:49 AM IST

    Nirav ModiOpinion
    No one is accountable. And we're all to blame

    Pick any story about a disaster or gross negligence and one thing becomes clear.

    22 Feb 2018 1:34 AM IST

    Union health minister J.P. Nadda releases the lists of BJP candidates for the Punjab and Goa Assembly elections in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Let's talk about health: India's future at stake

    India has been the outlier among major economies so far as healthcare is concerned.

    8 Feb 2018 2:17 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    Vikas is there, but not sabka saath'

    More reason to cheer the IMF forecasts that India will grow at a projected 7.8 per cent growth rate in 2019.

    25 Jan 2018 2:48 AM IST

    Educational societies didnt use the land till June 2016.Opinion
    Beyond basics, a gender gap looms

    The deeply worrying news is that at age 18, 32 per cent of females are not enrolled in any institution as compared to 28...

    19 Jan 2018 11:49 PM IST

    The Supreme CourtOpinion
    The miniscule matters: A hopeful start to 2018

    The spirit of what the Supreme Court said this Monday lies in its 2017 ruling on the right to privacy.

    11 Jan 2018 1:43 AM IST

    Christmas treeOpinion
    Alarm bells vs jingle bells

    Three and half years of high-decibel Hindutva has done much for Modi and his party.

    28 Dec 2017 3:29 AM IST

    The video showed a man leading the victim identified as Mohammed Afrazul, to a spot and then attacking him with an axe from behind. (Screengrab from NDTV)Opinion
    It's time to unite India against climate of hate

    Shambhulal has been arrested but the clip, filmed by his 14-year-old nephew and uploaded on the social media, has gone...

    14 Dec 2017 6:17 AM IST

    Sunita Narain, of the Centre for Science and Environment. (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)Books
    Fixing the air is everyone's job, says Sunita Narain

    I have had many other American commentators, equally well known, who have come and interviewed me but I have always been...

    8 Dec 2017 12:34 AM IST

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