Anniversary Special 2016

Updated : Jan 28, 2016

Infrastructure & Urbanisation: Smart Cities - Five Mistakes of the West India Must Avoid

Technology entrepreneur and investor Jack Hidary, who was CEO of Dice.com and now the Chairman of Samba Energy, suggests a template for a brand new Smart City and says India should avoid making the mistakes of the West.

Updated : Jan 11, 2016

The Environment: India is an Ideal Country for Solar Energy

Chetan Maini, who developed India's first-ever commercial electric car, the Reva, writes about how to harness the full power of the sun for clean energy.

Updated : Jan 11, 2016

Agriculture: Achieving a Yield Revolution in Major Food

If the rains fail, so does our crops. How does one move beyond the over dependence on rains as many other countries have done? Professor M.S. Swaminathan, renowned geneticist and father of the Indian Green Revolution, shares his thoughts.

Updated : Jan 11, 2016

Education: The System Needs a Complete Overhaul

While India has clearly made some progress on school education, the situation on multiple dimensions is alarming. Anurag Behar, CEO of Azim Premji Foundation looks at the possible solutions.

Updated : Jan 11, 2016

Agriculture: A Revolution Waiting to Happen Beyond the Mandis

Dilip Mookherjee, Director of the Institute for Economic Development, and Professor of Economics at Boston University, who specialises in incentives and institutions, suggeststhe path to a more efficient and transparent agri supply chain.

Some of India's landmark legislations such as MGNREGA, insurance for all, direct benefit transfer, education for all and health for all, have been instruments of bringing social equilibrium. (Photo: Ajay Thakuri)

Updated : Jan 9, 2016

How could law become an instrument of social justice?

Ranjeev C. Dubey, Managing Partner, N South, Advocates, outlines what must be done to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor over the next 25 years.

Developing countries neither have the resources nor the inclination to provide security of health, education and minimum living expenses to each citizen. (Photo: Ajay Thakuri)

Updated : Jan 9, 2016

It's time to give every Indian a social security net

Reetika Khera, Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Dept, IIT-Delhi, says with India gaining strength, both economically and geo-politically, we can now achieve 100% social security.

Updated : Jan 5, 2016

Defence Policy: Getting Our Defence Policy Right

India might still be primarily Pakistan-and-China focused, but tomorrow's enemy may not necessarily be the proximate enemy. Admiral Arun Prakash, former Chief of Naval Staff and former Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, outlines how to prepare for the new adversary.

Updated : Jan 4, 2016

Agriculture: Time to Add Value to the Agricultural Value Chain

D. Shivakumar, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo India, writes about how to make commercial farming work in India.

Updated : Jan 4, 2016

Economy: Ideas for the Budget of the Future

Former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, prescribes what the governments of the future should aim for, in terms of deficit, expenditure and raising of resources.

Despite the appointment of multiple commissions to reform the governance of police forces across the country, the government has lacked the political willpower to implement their recommendations. (Photo: Ajay Thakuri)

Updated : Jan 2, 2016

Police Reforms: Rejuvenate and Transform the Police

Prakash Singh, former DGP of UP and BSF, who leads a movement for police reforms, explains how to create a professional, well-trained, equipped, and motivated police force.

India's babudom is being rated among the worst in Asia. (Photo: Raj Verma)

Updated : Jan 2, 2016

Bureaucratic Reform: Revamp our Bureaucracy

Vinod Rai, former CAG of India and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, in the National University of Singapore, explains how the revamp can make India future-ready.

Updated : Jan 1, 2016

Financial Inclusion: Harnessing Technology for All

Financial inclusion is not just about having a bank account for everyone in the society. It is about creating an ecosystem that enables and encourages people to use financial instruments in their everyday life.

Updated : Dec 31, 2015

Defence Policy: Coming together for 'Create in India'

Anil Sardana, CEO & MD, Tata Power (lead contractor for Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher and Akash Missile Launchers), and Rahul Chaudhry, CEO of the company's Strategic Engineering Division, write on why 'Make in India' matters for India's defence preparedness.

Updated : Dec 31, 2015

Education: Renaissance of Liberal Arts Education in India

A few years ago, Ashish Dhawan, Co-founder of Chrys Capital, one of India's biggest private equity funds, Pramath Raj Sinha, Founding Dean of ISB, Vineet Gupta, MD, Jamboree Education, and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder and Vice Chairman of InfoEdge (Naukri.com), joined hands and pulled in many others to conceptualise and build Ashoka University, a private university focused on liberal arts education. They write about the importance of liberal arts to the development of the country.

Updated : Dec 31, 2015

Justice For All: Need Better, Fewer Laws

A huge number of Indian laws needs to be scrapped and new ones passed to help us progress. The man who has written extensively about it is Bibek Debroy, celebrated economist, head of the panel for restructuring Indian railways, and a member of Niti Aayog, the body that replaced the Planning Commission.

Updated : Dec 31, 2015

Financial Inclusion: Reaching the Last Mile in Financial Services Delivery

Despite the best efforts by policy makers and state-owned banks, the last mile problem has been an insurmountable hurdle in the way of financial inclusion for the poor. Bindu Ananth, Chair - IFMR Trust & IFMR Holdings, busts some common fallacies about financial inclusion.

Updated : Dec 31, 2015

Financial Inclusion: Financial Products for Bottom of the Pyramid

It is recognised by everyone that without proper financial products for the have-nots, no real progress on financial inclusion can take place. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Founder, MD & CEO, Bandhan Bank, with his deep knowledge of microfinance in India, makes suggestions ....

Updated : Dec 31, 2015

Health for All: Resist Pressure at Any Price

Yale Law School's associate professor David Singh Grewal (right), a specialist in IP law and biotechnology and Professor Amy Kapczynski explain how to make drugs-for-all a national priority.

Updated : Dec 31, 2015

Foreign Policy: India Must Share Its Success with the World

India should reinvigorate its pursuit of the democratisation of the international order replacing the post-World War II order with one that represents, more truly, the global realities of the times.

Updated : Dec 30, 2015

Police reforms: Operational Autonomy is Key to Run the Force

Julio Ribeiro, one of India's most feted police officers, a former commissioner of Mumbai Police, and former director general of Punjab Police during the era of militancy in that state, looks at what needs to be done to make the police in India fit for the next 25 years.