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Harold Bloom, Abhijit Banerjee and the Wealth of Ideas
S Prasannarajan
The lone tower of literary criticism
What Lies Behind Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel
The research model used by him and Esther Duflo can provide a corrective to the top-down approach of centralised policymaking
Economics Nobel for Kolkata boy who is an alumnus of JNU, Presidency College
Abhijit Banerjee won the prize along with wife Esther Duflo and US economist Michael Kremer
Uniform Behavioural Code
What undermines Modi and his message is not the grievance of a signature but the violence and vulgarism of religious vigilantes
Complications of the Position
Making middle-order batsmen into openers in Tests usually doesn’t end well for India
Arvind Kejriwal: Warming Up
Delhi Chief Minister seems to have had a change of strategy on how to deal with the BJP Government at the Centre
Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke: Flight Makers
An inventive Polish in great form and a colossal Austrian are the new Nobel laureates in literature
Cultural Evolution
As Xi Jinping comes calling, a close examination of China’s effort to educate its students and lead well-funded research platforms—from a state that sent poets to jail for subjectivism to Jack Ma’s Alibaba
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