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Patralekha Chatterjee
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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    Indias general election, the worlds largest, is likely to be held sometime in the first half of 2024. (Image by Freepik - pikusuperstar)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Several questions as we look back at 2023,...

    Looking ahead necessarily means factoring in the country's contradictions and working much harder on the problem areas

    28 Dec 2023 11:33 PM IST

    BookMyForex.com is worlds first and largest marketplace for currency exchange and private remittances. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Remittances at a new high, but there's a dark...

    India's inward remittances may account for only 3.4 per cent of the country's GDP but it is the highest recipient of...

    21 Dec 2023 11:04 PM IST

    What distinguishes a citizen from a beneficiary? (PTI File Image)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Basic services a citizen's right' or gift'...

    The questions are not new. Nor is the debate around the citizen versus labharthi template.

    9 Dec 2023 12:42 AM IST

    NDRF personnel and others at the under-construction tunnel between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway, days after a portion of the tunnel collapsed trapping several workers inside, in Uttarkashi district, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Blunders in the Himalayas: Have we learnt any...

    Uttarakhand and the Himalayas are in the news once again. And the inconvenient truth rears its head once more.

    23 Nov 2023 12:12 AM IST

    A bird sits on a railing during a smoggy morning, in New Delhi, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. The air quality in Delhi was recorded in the severe category on Thursday morning. The Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 420 at 8 am, compared to 426 at 4 pm on Wednesday. (PTI Photo/Kamal Singh)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Toxic air: Get serious on avoiding death by...

    Health must be the prism through which we view and address air pollution.

    9 Nov 2023 11:37 PM IST

    A Palestinian stands outside the building destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023. (AP/PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | It's time to rehumanise', to shun hate, cease...

    We urgently need rehumanising narratives to counter the dehumanising narratives swirling around inside the country and...

    26 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Israeli tanks move near the Israeli Gaza border, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP/PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | As migrants in war zones return, do more to...

    This is not the first time Indians have been trapped in a war zone. Nor is this the first rescue flight

    18 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Job creation continues to be Indias main challenge: State of Working India 2023. (AFP File Image)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Bring jobs back to the top of India's...

    Unemployment is falling, but remains high.

    28 Sept 2023 12:03 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Many challenges for India as voice of Global...

    India seeks to champion the concerns of the Global South at a time when there are glaring fault lines in the world and...

    14 Sept 2023 12:19 AM IST

    School children wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus attend a class on the first day of partial reopening of government schools in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Confronting bigotry and violence in the...

    Many teachers see nothing wrong in using violence to teach a lesson to a child, though corporal punishment is strictly...

    2 Sept 2023 12:25 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the historic Red Fort on the occasion of the 77th Independence Day, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | The Developed India' Story: Conversations we...

    India remains a poor and very unequal country, with an affluent elite where the top 10% holds 57% of the total...

    18 Aug 2023 12:33 AM IST

    Farmers sort tomatoes near a field before being be transported to other cities, during the nationwide lockdown imposed in wake of coronavirus pandemic, at Murbad Taluka in Thane. PTI photoOpinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Tomatoes and turbulence: Indians face harder...

    For context, in 2021, 418 million Asians experienced extreme hunger, indicating a rise from the previous year.

    3 Aug 2023 12:35 AM IST

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