Ranvir Nayar
Managing Director & Founder at Media India Group
World set to miss adult education SDG targets
July 1, 2022
Nations around the world have committed to eradicating adult illiteracy as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of providing education for all by the year 2030. However, with barely eight years to go, even as the world struggles with bringing children’s educa...
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Demolition of protestors’ homes: Bulldozing freedom & laws
June 15, 2022
The demolition of the homes of activist Javed Mohammad and some persons who protested in Allahabad against the insult of Prophet Muhammad by two spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party is not only in violation of all rules but is also entirely illegal, say legal experts. They...
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BJP’s Islamophobia boomerangs as Islamic nations seek apology
June 6, 2022
It is a sight that few in India, leave alone the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, would have expected to see in a country that has been very friendly to India for the past several decades, ever since the two established diplomatic relations. Photographs of Indian Prime Minister Nar...
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From Quad Summit to China: India must stop doing Biden’s bidding
May 25, 2022
The fourth Quad Summit, second in-person, has ended in Japanese capital Tokyo on a predictable note, with more intensive targetting of China, especially for its aggressive misadventures in the Indo-Pacific region. Though the leaders of the four member nations, United States Presi...
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20 years on, African Union has failed Africa
May 24, 2022
The last two years have not been very kind to Africa. It is not just the Covid-19 pandemic, which of course hit the continent hard. Vaccination rates across the continent continue to languish well below the world average and many African nations have managed to vaccinate only a f...
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India turns to King Coal again as heatwaves lead to power demand surge
May 16, 2022
Last week, Indian government said it was reviving mining from 100 coal mines that had been shut down earlier as they were not financially viable. However, with a severe coal shortage looming large over the country, leading to a massive mismatch between power demand and supply jus...
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Unbridled inflation in India continues to race ahead
April 18, 2022
Few would have been surprised by the news today that inflation in India has risen again in March, because it was expected that inflation would keep rising. But what caught most analysts and bankers off guard was the extent to which inflation had raced ahead as the government says...
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Replay of 2017 in French Presidential elections
April 12, 2022
If there was one surprising outcome of the first round of the French Presidential elections on Sunday, it was just how strongly Jean Luc Mélenchon performed, ending up in a respectable third position with 21.95 pc votes, just behind far right leader Marine Le Pen, who was the ru...
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Despite rising inflation, RBI holds interest rates at lowest-ever
April 9, 2022
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India that ended its two-day meeting on Friday has decided to keep the repo and reverse repo rates at 4 pc and 3.5 pc respectively, the lowest-ever levels for both the benchmark rates. The decision was taken even as the MPC and...
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Macron comfortably ahead in French polls, Marine Le Pen closes gap
April 5, 2022
For long, France has been seen as amongst the most ‘socialist’ States in the western world and the anchor of socialism in European Union, with its relatively generous social security rules as well as the infamous unions and their numerous strikes and protests that have often ...
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Need to go slow on antibiotics to save lives
April 3, 2022
An alarming report published earlier this year in The Lancet, a medical journal, said that antimicrobial resistance was directly responsible for 1.27 million death and linked to about 4.95 million other deaths across the world in 2019. Antimicrobial resistance is when bacteria ca...
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Repair, not replace: Key to tackling climate change
March 29, 2022
Thirungia region in Germany is offering residents up to 100 Euros for not throwing away their smartphones, but repair them and continue to use them. Similar repair bonus is also available for other consumer electronic items like laptops and domestic appliances. The scheme is soon...
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