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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 Red Fort. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Dev 360: Why India is seeing red over Red Fort's upkeep

    Heritage activists are incensed that the govt is no longer willing to take responsibility for the full upkeep of this...

    3 May 2018 7:27 AM IST

    Outrage has been triggered across nation by rape and murder of 8-year-old girl in Kathua and abduction and rape of teenage girl in Indias northern Uttar Pradesh state. (Photos: AP/ PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360: A restorative narrative after cascade of horror

    Sometimes a rape is a hate crime, as in the brutal rape and murder of the eight-year-old Bakerwal community girl in...

    19 April 2018 7:21 AM IST

    Students block a road during a protest against CBSE paper leak, in Jammu on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360: Leak wake-up call Rejig exams, junk cramming

    The alleged “leaks” of examination papers, even if limited, have caused immense trauma to lakhs of students and...

    5 April 2018 7:24 AM IST

    Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj before a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, at Jawahar Lal Nehru Bhavan in New Delhi. (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 1:02 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
    Dev 360: Chalo Paltai! Smashing statues won't bring jobs

    According to the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE), there are currently nearly 31 million unemployed...

    8 March 2018 3:26 AM IST

    Lawyer Vijay Aggarwal, speaking by telephone, declined to comment on where Nirav Modi was. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    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 1:57 AM IST

    Union minister for health J.P. Nadda said that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Neet) is being implemented in Tamil Nadu.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 12:37 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the at World Economic Forum plenary in Davos on Tuesday.Opinion
    Dev 360: Vikas is there, but not sabka saath'

    A chilling reminder comes from the WEF's latest Inclusive Development Index, which puts India at 62nd place among...

    25 Jan 2018 7:22 AM IST

    Why do we focus on gender as early as pregnancy, and if its planning, what are we planning? (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Beyond basics, a gender gap looms

    ASER 2017 shows that hearteningly, 86 per cent of youth in the surveyed 14-18 age-group are still within the formal...

    18 Jan 2018 1:10 PM IST

    Supreme Court of IndiaOpinion
    The miniscule matters: A hopeful start to 2018

    The court's decision to revisit its own 2013 verdict upholding the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the IPC is...

    11 Jan 2018 12:27 AM IST

    Dev 360: Alarm bells vs jingle bellsOpinion
    Dev 360: Alarm bells vs jingle bells

    The Union ministry of home affairs issued an advisory to all states to maintain the utmost vigil to prevent “any...

    28 Dec 2017 6:27 AM IST

    Afrazul Khan, a migrant labourer from West Bengals Malda district who was working as a mason in Rajasthan. Khan was hacked and burnt alive by one Shambhulal Regar at Rajasamand in Rajasthan. The brutal murder was captured on camera by Shambhulals teenaged nephew.Opinion
    Dev 360: It's time to unite India against climate of hate

    Khan was hacked and burnt alive by one Shambhulal Regar at Rajasamand in Rajasthan.

    14 Dec 2017 3:52 AM IST

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