India’s tourism prospects, by all counts, are incredible. With its diversity in culture, topography, flora, and fauna, India, perhaps, has no match. Then why is it in the 34th position in the world tourism map and a single digit growth rate?Globetrotters know well where to search for wildlife or t...
Infrastructure in a way is the essential “inners” of any development plan. Without it there is no progress; but with its right support you can achieve whatever you wish to build upon. However, infrastructure is expensive and eats away much of your ‘capital’.A country progresses with its inve...
Gopalaswami Ayyangar, a minister in Nehru’s cabinet, a former dewan of Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu & Kashmir and who principally drafted the Article 370 argued in the Constituent Assembly of J&K in 1949 that unlike other princely states, J&K was not ripe for integration with Ind...
Journalists are not always a very disciplined lot.Keeping them at an arm’s length can be a good strategy for the government – and that can happen as a result of their own misbehaviour; but banning them from the source of information can have different implications.This is precisely what happened...
The parliament for the second NDA government opened, for a change, with a healthy debate. In recent times, the Indian parliament has witnessed acrimonious exchanges and people have often expressed their unhappiness with the misuse of this wonderful platform for communication and learning.Debating on...
The new finance minister, Nirmala Sitaraman, in one of her first tweets immediately after taking office writes “Grateful for every thought/idea that’s being shared by scholars, economists and enthusiasts through print, electronic and on social media. I read many of them; also my team carefully c...
Now that the elections are over and a new government is being formed – with a very clear mandate – we need to look forward. Managing the country for the next five years cannot be on the same lines as an election campaign. Focus has to change to real economic development of the country from ...
By the time this magazine gets printed and reaches the readers, the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will almost be over and everyone will be looking forward to the results, to be published on May 23. The campaigning during the last one month has been really intense and unfortunately, the quality of the pol...
Many global reports (UNEP, IPCC, and WMO) indicate that the world is moving towards a 3 degree temperature rise, which will lead to the extinction of many living species, sea level rise, and frequent climatic disasters. On an average, 3700 deaths occur in India every year for climate reasons, which ...
Words. Words. Words. Do they really mean anything? Or are they just promises without action. The Congress spells out a ‘detailed plan of action’. The BJP takes a “sankalp”. If they were really serious, then why the “five decades of dynastic rule” (as Narendra Modi describes Congress rule...
