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Patralekha Chatterjee focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies. She can be reached at patralekha.chatterjee@gmail.com
    There is really no way we can prevent the rest of the world from taking interest in our domestic affairs, especially if we wish to be at the high table of the international community. (Photo:AP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | The siege within: India and the foreign hand'

    The ruling BJP sees comments from global celebrities in support of the ongoing farmers' protests as part of a deep...

    11 Feb 2021 4:14 AM IST

    Standup comedian Munawar Faruqui (Imag source: Instagram)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Can we really laugh our way to a stronger...

    It can strike the heart of power in a good-natured way, which is why many see comedy as arguably the most democratic...

    5 Feb 2021 7:18 AM IST

    A health worker shows the Covishield vaccine, after arrival of the first batch of the vaccines from the Serum Institute of India. (PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Is new normal' really a return to the old...

    For a fleeting while, optimists wondered if the Covid-19 pandemic had sledgehammered some fundamental lessons into us

    14 Jan 2021 12:03 AM IST

    The controversy, however, is more about the drug regulators emergency approval to the second coronavirus vaccine, the indigenously produced Covaxin, before critical efficacy data of the third phase of clinical trials are out.Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Why trust needs to be the key word in 2021

    Opacity in decision-making, attempts to gloss over mistakes or polarise the populace on any count will punch holes in...

    7 Jan 2021 4:00 AM IST

    Photo credit TwitterOpinion
    Child nutrition crisis may derail India's aspirations

    The underfed hugely outnumber the overfed but alongside the crisis of child under-nutrition, we are also seeing a rise...

    17 Dec 2020 7:45 AM IST

    Patralekha Chatterjee | Pay heed to shadow pandemic of hungerOpinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Pay heed to shadow pandemic of hunger

    Globally, there is a red alert about the shadow pandemic of hunger in the time of COVID-19

    3 Dec 2020 9:56 AM IST

    A health worker wearing PPE kit collects sample from a girl for COVID-19 test, at a Childrens Home in New Delhi, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Get priorities straight in time of a pandemic

    Amid the deaths, disease, debt and despair, guess what some state governments in India are concerned about?

    22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

    The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2020 Wave 1), released online late last month, reaffirms a positive trend: households in India, both rich and poor, are pinning their hopes on education as a passport to upward mobility, even in the times of Covid-19. (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha Chatterjee | Prioritise the needs of most vulnerable kids

    The pandemic has once again sledgehammered the fact that in digital India, everyone is not equal

    5 Nov 2020 1:35 PM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Right) with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. (PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360 | India must learn from others, shed its hubris

    Bangladesh has invested in strengthening its human capital, especially women, and this is paying off also in economic...

    19 Oct 2020 10:40 AM IST

    Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)Opinion
    Dev 360 | 'No data is not good enough

    On matters of life and death, such as the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that data be in the public domain

    25 Sept 2020 9:48 PM IST

    A student undergoes thermal screening as she arrives to appear in JEE Main examination, at a center in Kozhikode. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Dev 360 | In any crisis, take care of the most vulnerable

    Covid-19 has not only revealed vulnerabilities and inequalities in the education systems across the world, it has made...

    4 Sept 2020 5:28 PM IST

    Representational image (AFP)Opinion
    Patralekha | Lockdown generation' at risk: Save their jobs

    The CMIE data analysis underlines a grim fact during Unlock 3.0

    20 Aug 2020 6:26 PM IST

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