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Beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Social Wellbeing, and Lessons From the Bhutan Model
Bhutan's approach does not reject economic growth. Instead, it seeks to balance material progress with social, cultural, environmental and psychological well-being. The country's GNH framework provides a basis for assessing how public policies affect different dimensions of people's lives.
Indian Cricket's Search for a Selector: Despite the Game's Glamour, Few Takers for the Thankless Job
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Rethinking Climate Security in South Asia - Through AI
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With the coronavirus pandemic continuing its spread around the world, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced a three-week complete nationwide lockdown of 1.3 billion people on March 24. The government advised people to observe social distancing even before the lockdown came into place – but it was only partially effective.
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SAMDEN protests actions against Mir Shakilur Rahman and The Wire
Leading editors and media professionals from South Asia today protested actions against the media in Pakistan and India - the detention of Pakistani editor and publisher Mir Shakilur Rahman in Lahore and legal action against the independent Indian online portal, The Wire
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Responding to vivid accounts of police brutality and arbitrariness across India during the nationwide lockdown, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has framed a set of guidelines to assist police departments to enforce the lockdown within the Constitutional framework
To revive economy, India needs massive investments in multiple sectors
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India's coronavirus lockdown will hit women and migrant workers hardest
In Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, I woke up to an eerie silence yesterday. The night before, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced a 21-day national lockdown would start at midnight.
Lockdown and Isaac Newton: Remembering a pioneering scientist in challenging times
One of the greatest thoughts of mankind came from Isaac Newton. Interestingly enough he developed all his mathematical and scientific theories when he was banished from Cambridge University, where he was studying, to his native place in rural England during the great plague of the 1660s
Requiem for an iconic Indian paper
A requiem was written this week for India Abroad, the New York-based weekly newspaper, that shut down after 50 years of publication. A note from the present publisher, Suresh Venkatachari, regretted the closure of the iconic publication, calling it "heartrending" for its thousands of readers "for whom India Abroad has been an integral part of their India-American journey..."
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Newspapers struggle to survive in pandemic-induced lockdown
Newspapers are facing an uphill task to maintain their readership as India is in a complete lockdown till the middle of April because of the COVID-19 pandemic
Why coronavirus lockdown rules will not be obeyed by everyone
You may have noticed that some people have responded very differently to new rules on lockdown and social distancing. Some seem appalled. Other reassured. What might account for these differences?
