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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
    Lucknow: A truck driver prepares his meal on a roadside at Lucknow - Agra expressway during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of deadly coronavirus pandemic, in Lucknow. PTI photoOpinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Why so prickly? Is there a plot to defame...

    India's officialdom rubbished the findings and called the GHI 2021 assessment of India as shocking

    21 Oct 2022 12:53 AM IST

    This year, Durga Puja, the biggest festival for Bengalis, was celebrated with more aplomb than ever since Unesco included Durga Puja in Kolkata in its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity last year. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Festivals need to celebrate inclusion, not...

    In a fractured and increasingly polarised society, festivals offer a fantastic opportunity to be inclusive in its...

    7 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

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    Patralekha Chatterjee | India's pride, prejudice and its global...

    The India of the future will depend on which metrics and indicators we choose to play up, and which ones we try to gloss...

    23 Sept 2022 1:55 AM IST

    A boy pushes a table in a flooded locality of Bellandur after heavy monsoon rains, in Bengaluru, Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | India's sinking story: Can we reimagine our...

    Bengaluru continues to reel from torrential rains, flooded homes, widespread power cuts, submerged roads and more

    9 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

    One wonders what, given the recent past and the record since 1947, the next quarter century holds in store for India. (DC Image)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | A lot needs to be done for developed' India by...

    Development , like beauty, is a word that triggers lively discussions and polemical exchanges

    26 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

    Artists of Red Cross society wear coronavirus helmet to spread awareness about the pandemic in Jammu. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Do our recent health crises offer teachable...

    In the time of pandemics and climate change, no problem can be dismissed as someone else's headache

    30 July 2022 12:22 AM IST

    An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel helps pilgrims on their way to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Pilgrimages amid changing climate: Ensure...

    What do pilgrimages mean in the time of climate change and the consequent rise in extreme weather events?

    14 July 2022 11:34 PM IST

    People pay their respects to slain Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal, who was allegedly killed by two Muslim men for supporting a former spokeswoman of the railing Bharatiya Janta Party for her remarks about the Prophet Mohammed, in Udaipur on June 30, 2022. (AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | It's time to reclaim our minds, dial down hate

    The impact of toxic hate speeches and hate crimes in recent years has gone deep into the gut of our society

    1 July 2022 12:04 AM IST

    FILE- Authorities demolish the residence of activist Javed Ahmad they say has been constructed illegally in Prayagraj, India, Sunday, June 12, 2022. (AP Photo)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | A breakdown of governance? We need healing,...

    A bulldozer is not an accessory of good governance. And stone pelting is not the way to progress

    17 Jun 2022 9:24 PM IST

    Infant mortality is the end-result of a whole chain of interlinked ground-level challenges. (Representational Image/ Pexels)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | India's infant mortality rate isn't a fringe...

    The latest data from the Registrar-General of India shows that India's infant mortality rate is 28 (28 infant deaths per...

    10 Jun 2022 2:38 AM IST

    Villagers wade through a flooded road after heavy rains in Hojai district of Indias Assam state on May 19, 2022. (Photo:AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Climate crisis to be India's biggest threat...

    One reason wheat prices have shot up has to do with the intense heatwave that struck parts of India from March

    20 May 2022 12:15 AM IST

    An anti-smog gun sprays water droplets to curb air pollution, at Delhi- Gurugram Expressway in Gurugram. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Rising stress of heat: Act now, before it gets...

    Cities and states are developing heat action plans, but the focus must remain on the most vulnerable

    6 May 2022 12:09 AM IST

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