When the British left India after 200 years, it drained the country of resources worth according onestatistics (Utsa Patnaik) $ 45 trillion. Today, after 75 years of its independence, we are struggling tobecome a $5 trillion economy.In 1950, the per capita income of an average Indian was $60; today ...
The Government of India’s job creating projects like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Skills India’ raised expectations; but the project ‘Agnipath’ in the defence force raised an alarm. The countrywide arson was an overreaction and possibly politically motivated; but it raised some serious questio...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Tokyo was a successful one. Apart from the four nation discussions on Quad strategies, India signed an investment agreement worth $4 billion with the US in the wings. According to the agreement, US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) i...
A war is basically destructive; but it also throws up many harsh realities which we tend to avoid in hours of peace. When Russia attacked Ukraine, it clearly said it was fighting the Americans not the Ukrainians. Ukraine’s ambition was to join the European Union which Russia would not allow. Russi...
Nobody can underestimate the contribution of the NationalStock Exchange (NSE) to the Indian financial market. Ata time when stock trading was turning online, and many ofthe traditional stock markets - including the Bombay StockExchange (BSE) - were reluctant to give up the traditionalways of trading...
One of the most positive changes in the 75 years of Indian independence has been its food security. Old timers can recall the days of PL480 of 1960s when India had to beg and borrow food from the outside world. Today things are very different. There were many who at the beginning of the pandemic had...
With Zee TV and Sony India coming together, the inevitable is happening: Indian media is also going the global way. In the 1980s, the global media was owned by at least 50 companies; but from 2010s onwards, the global media is being owned by just six major conglomerations. Media is losin...
It’s a pleasure to note two political rivals meet each other and wish themselves well. Mamata Banerjee went to the extent of inviting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come to the state and inaugurate the next business summit in West Bengal early 2022. The state really needs a push in industrial...
At a time when the media was getting submerged with so much controversy regarding fake news, paid news, private treaties, hegemony, consumerism there came the announcement of two journalists – one from Philippines and another from Russia – getting the Nobel Peace prize this year. When everyone w...
Narendra Modi’s first meeting with the new US president, Joe Biden, opens great opportunities for India in south Asian politics. Both talk Afghanistan, which indicates new alignments, new power equations and new thought processes in international diplomacy. The threat of China now seems to precede...
