Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

‘Encounters’ need to end but the real culprit is a moribund judicial system

The killing of four rape suspects in an “encounter” by the Hyderabad police evoked rapturous joy in many TV channels

Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that without drastic action by 2030, world temperatures would rise by

Statisticians are not crooks. But their methodologies do need to change Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar The government has junked the

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014 on an anti-corruption platform from which he told voters, “Main na khaoonga

When Narendra Modi was re-elected, optimists expected GDP growth to accelerate to 8%. Alas, it is plummeting towards 4%, having

People lie in surveys. Which is why India needs a new methodology to gather data A leaked National Sample Survey Office

Has the Supreme Court, long praised for independence and fearlessness, suffered some erosion of its tough impartial image, and allowed

Indian exports have grown very little since 2013. No economy in the world has had GDP growth of 7% for

The stock markets think the government might abolish the dividend distribution tax (DDT) and let all dividends be taxed as