Pitamber Kaushik
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Pakistan must review its food trade profile
The war in Ukraine continues to send shockwaves around the globe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a disaster foretold, yet there was little action on the part of most of the trading partners of th… → Read More
India needs an overall trade-profile revision
Part 1 is here. It is vital for India to identify critical dependencies, with criticality being defined in terms of the essentiality, quantitative utility and multi-sector relevance of the imported… → Read More
Adjust India’s oil & gas imports or face disruption
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a catastrophic culmination of longstanding and escalating tensions between the two countries, has had consequences that have been far from binational.… → Read More
How Indian students rate virtualized education
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the educational infrastructure and machinery to shift from physical environments to digital ones. These virtual avenues, → Read More
India’s education policy repeats mistake it dodged in 1953
The last governor general of India, a celebrated political figure and a co-recipient of the inaugural Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, → Read More
Sustainability in Asia: dead-end shortcuts
South Asia, lying in the tropical belt, is often seen as a global citadel for solar energy. But alternative energy suffers the most human of fallacies – → Read More
The perils of simplistic ‘sustainability’ in South Asia
In 2004, India's railway minister at the time, Laloo Prasad Yadav, proposed a set of innovations that included the introduction of small traditional clay → Read More
Exam order puts Indian students in tricky position
India's university examination chiefs have resisted widespread pressure stemming from the pandemic and ordered that all exams be complete by the end of → Read More
Did the lockdown really intensify Cyclone Amphan?
I shook my head in disbelief at the headline that said Cyclone Amphan might be linked to the Covid-19 lockdown. The friend who alerted me to it was awed → Read More
Why India’s electronics sector lags behind China
Anyone who has ever looked up a do-it-yourself project of a decent degree of complexity on the Internet would know that a programmable microcontroller kit → Read More
India’s flawed electronics engineering education
I was a member of the Quizzing Society of one of India’s premier private technology institutions. Our fund-deprived club cherished a hand-me-down → Read More
The jaw harp: musical secret-keeper
Today, the instrument called the Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, is a preoccupation of two kinds of people – those concerned with upholding or → Read More
How pool testing can help overcome Covid-19
During the Second World War, there was considerable haste for mass induction into the US Army, but it was important to weed out men with syphilis. This → Read More
Far-UV radiation can help combat Covid-19
Ultraviolet radiation has been used as a microbicide for more than a century. From water purifiers to laboratory equipment, UV radiation has wide utility → Read More
Recessions, longevity and the Covid-19 ‘sweet spot’
Recessions save lives. This statistical truth has been a thorn in the side of capitalism and neoliberalism, and a befuddling conundrum for economists and → Read More