The man, who changed the course of India’s economic history, once hoped, almost plunging in despair, that “history will be kind to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the opposition parties in the parliament.” A soft spoken, sometimes ridiculed in the parliament as a ‘mouni b...
The Indian Constitution, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, is no ordinary legal document. It took three years to overcome the controversies and fulfil expectations since India’s independence in 1947, and finally establish itself as a guiding force for the nation. Today, it represent...
Amidst the gloom of the RG Kar affair or the Tirupati laddu scam or even the continued terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir, even after the completion of the first general election in the state, we find hope and encouragement when the founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, in his recent visit to India...
When calamities hit us, they seem to come in great numbers. The Tirupati ‘laddu’ disaster seem to shock us inconsolably - at a time when Manipur has flared up again, Kolkata is mourning the murder of a young doctor and nature has unleashed its fury in Kerala, Delhi, Mumba...
With the recent skirmishes in the Arunachal border and the help China extends to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka we tend to believe that China is India’s ‘enemy number one’. But when we look at India’s foreign policy and now try to analyse its economic strategies, we are proved all wrong....
Narendra Modi’s third reign begins, of course with a reduced margin and also not without controversies. The oppositionhad been campaigning that if he could achieve what he professed – “iss bar 400 paar”- then there would be no more elections. Happily for them, the reduced majority of BJP ens...
Whenever there is an election, we find the politicians speaking in hyperboles – and possibly, 2024 Lok Sabha has reached a crest. About prediction of results we see, for the first time, two apparently ‘rational’ poll analysts giving diametrically opposite figures. So statistics, and their anal...
The seven phase massive election process in the largest democracy of the world is on; and the churn throws up hope as well as despair. When the bubble of election propaganda settles down, we only hope we do not land on mother earth with a thud.The foreign media, which is always suspected to run down...
The 2024 parliamentary elections have brought to the fore several real but hitherto undiscussed and hence uncommon economic issues. The finance minister has declined to fight the election because she said she has not enough money. This is a rare case of personal honesty which we seldom come across f...
The Supreme Court finally struck down the government’s electoral bond scheme last week. It’s a landmark judgment in favour of transparency to the voters. It’s a victory for the people’s act – Right to Information (RTI). But will its removal really reduce corruption – the reason why it wa...
