Kushan Mitra

 Kushan Mitra It has been three years since the most dramatic of general elections in recent memory, and definitely the most significant election for a majority of young Indians. Narendra Modi's stunning victory was made possible thanks to…
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  Kushan Mitra  The Indian Universal Basic Income, or UBI, is an idea that is now being discussed across the world, with Finland becoming the first large economy to contemplate it. Indeed, Kela, Finland's social security agency started a…
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Kushan Mitra  The election that is on everybody's mind, from editorial meetings to living rooms across the national capital and the rest of northern India, is the 2017 Uttar Pradesh election. From the strategies of Bharatiya Janata Party…
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Kushan Mitra  Dramatic advances in power technology are making the impossible of a decade ago quite simply possible. Just like mobile telephony allowed India to hop, skip and jump through decades of technological progress; advances in…
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Kushan Mitra Elections, particularly a general election, is acrimonious. If not, actually, very acrimonious on grounds where organisational skill matters. But the past election was the first  in India where, the Internet had a massive…
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Kushan Mitra Sports in the age of multi-channel live television has become a global multi-billion dollar business. Today it is possible to watch almost every live tournament sitting anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. Yet,…
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Kushan Mitra  Other developing nations have challenged India's leadership role in climate negotiations, where India and China were ostensibly negotiating together. But the fact remains that China has already achieved industrial prowess far…
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Kushan Mitra About a month ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared that cleanliness was the need of the hour and had launched the Swachch Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) by symbolically cleaning a low-income area in central…
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Kushan Mitra Indian low-cost airline IndiGo burst into the scene with a mega-order for 100 aircraft at the Paris Air Show 2005. It had people asking who and what IndiGo was. Yet, it is a sign of IndiGo's success that almost no eyebrows…
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Kushan Mitra The Chinese President's visit to New Delhi might have fallen short of tangible benefits, but it did bestow the capital with the mother of all traffic jams. Commuters who usually take an already long 90-100 minutes were taking…
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