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...
An autistic child, Greta Thunberg, has shaken the world from its slumber. Even the trolling by the President of the most powerful nation could not deflect her from her conviction. Standing on the podium at the World Climate change convention in New York, she pointed out to the leaders of the world o...
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...
