With increasing waves of nationalism throughout the world, we had thought that globalisation was in retreat. But the Corona virus threat has proved us wrong. In the new networked world of the social media, a virus, like all other intangibles, can sail past all physical walls. Apart from an epi...
America loves India, America respects India and America will be forever a faithful and loyal friend to the Indian people,” said the US President Donald Trump. The First Lady and the President travelled 8000 miles to convey this message to over one lakh Indians who assembled to greet him at the new...
Even the critics who were unhappy with the Union Budget had to grudgingly admit that, after the placing of budget in the parliament, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman’s move to meet businessmen and members of different chambers of commerce, along with all her cabinet secretaries was a wise mo...
Today we live in hard times. The society is apparently divided between two extremes – the bhakts and the critics. So is the media. Earlier it was said about the media that when it was asked to bend, it crawled. Today, it moves further and follows the traditional ‘shastanga pranam’ or falls fla...
Renewed tension in West Asia forebodes a troubled 2020. The US troops’ killing of the Iranian military chief General Quassem Soleimani, followed by Iran’s retaliation on the Iraqi Balad Airbase, which hosts the US troops, some say, could be the beginning of the third world war. Iran’s supreme ...
We are seeing protest marches against China in Hong Kong. The president of the United States is on the verge of being impeached. In Spain, where the venue of climate meeting was changed, there are angry protests. In the roads of Paris we saw climate agitators. In the Netherlands, thousands of farmer...
The present trend of the world economy seems to move towards ‘anti-globalisation’. With an average growth rate of just 3.5%, countries seem to think more about their own welfare than the world as a whole. The Brexit is a clear example of this. A natural corollary is the increasing interest ...
The Supreme Court’s final verdict on Ayodhya is out. Almost all political parties have accepted it with grace. The Prime Minister has said that it is victory for none and has sought peace. The reactions of the media too have been generally rational. The Hindu’s banner heading says: Temple in dis...
Economics is too important to be left to economists alone – that’s how two of the three economists, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who won the Nobel Prize this year, end their latest book, Good Economics for Hard Times. Abhijit Banerjee has raised a lot of controversies by winning the prize;...
The India-China meet in Chennai, though of a short duration, is of great significance. It’s the meeting of two major economies, which are growing at a faster pace than others in the world. But the talks will not be an easy one. There are thorny issues like Kashmir, Akshai Chin, and China’s indul...
