Frailty, thy name is Manmohan Singh
His conspicuousness lay in having the most misplaced concept of loyalty, to a person rather than the Constitution. That was...
Intellectuals’ hatred for Fernandes continues beyond his life
How on earth could their ‘buddy’ join hands with the BJP? New Delhi: On the face of it, George...
Government reins in anti-big pharma NPPA
The Narendra Modi government’s move to dilute the price control regime in the pharmaceutical sector is laudable. Of course, the...
Rational speech not matched by conduct
Gandhi’s promise about rational economic decisions, while sounding good, is not backed with action. Rahul Gandhi talks often about...
10% quota may open a Pandora’s Box
By this move the Bharatiya Janata Party has chosen to breach the 50% cap on reservations set by the Supreme...
Nothing angelic about this tax
‘Today, entrepreneurs representing a wide cross-section of society refuse lucrative jobs to start their own businesses.’ Former American president...
NDA travels on the UPA path
The effortlessness with which politicians indulge in hypocrisy is as astonishing as is their proficiency in speaking non-facts. And we...
The waiver of reason
The inefficacy of farm loan waivers is well-known to all, as also the need for reforms in agriculture. Report after...
When politicking is good
Liberty is often a big casualty in the petty quarrels among unscrupulous politicians, publicity seekers and tetchy busybodies. It is...
A missed opportunity for reform
Why doesn’t the government think beyond six months? Speaking to a news channel, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley pointed out that...
Tharoor’s Sonia Gandhi directed theories
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor seems to be in love with his own articulateness. And since love is blind, he is...
PM Modi is right on Congress-urban Naxal links
Sonia Gandhi’s NAC comprised salon socialists, green terrorists and anti-business activists; the harm they did to the country is yet...
DeMo: Success or failure?
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is a brave man, for it calls for a great deal of courage to defend as...
World Bank sells a fairy tale
There is something odd about the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking. India jumping 23 places to rank 77...
Banality of calamity
Accidents keep happening, followed with media outrage and public outcry, but nothing meaningful happens to check them. The Amritsar...
MeToo: Good but fraught
On the face of it, the MeToo movement in India can be dismissed as a dangerous trend, as trial by...
As we await the inferno
Northern India, including Delhi, is facing the prospect of becoming one of the most polluted places on earth. Northern...
Pakistan, a country that is in love with lies
The Pakistani claim that their country is a victim of terror is akin to the lamentation of the drug lord...
Is Ayushman Bharat the right medicine?
Against the backdrop of inadequate state capacity and a dissolute political class, redeeming the health sector is difficult. The...
Banking on old nostrums
At the heart of banking woes are structural problems and ideological cobwebs. Einstein is said to have described absence...
When believing is seeing
The protests of intellectuals appear as the fulminations of has-beens rather than the roars of revolutionaries. Witnessing any gathering...
Dissent as smoke and mirrors
If anybody goes around with Naxals who are violent rogues, that person becomes a suspect. Dissent is legitimate but not...
Blaming the messenger: Lynching of reason
Social media platforms have indeed exacerbated the scope of evil deeds, but they have not occasioned evil. If an...
Imperial loot of India is a myth
In our schools and colleges, we are told how British rule was an unmitigated disaster, how our imperial rulers looted...
