Having overcome a series of obstacles ranging from Prakash Karat to the Nuclear Suppliers Group, India\’s plans for a massive nuclear power programme now face an even more daunting obstacle – Mamata Banerjee. Having tasted blood at Nandigram and Singur, …
India has gone from nuclear pariah to recognised nuclear power. That is the upshot of the decision of the Nuclear Suppliers Group to bend its rules for India. Till now, the NSG recognised only two kinds of countries, the haves …
Indians tend to analyse economic events as though India was a case by itself. Yet the most causal look at our major issues inflation, economic slowdown, outsourcing, pollution, rising trade and remittances shows that they are also global issues. Today, …
Indians tend to analyse economic events as though India was a case by itself. Yet the most causal look at our major issues inflation, economic slowdown, outsourcing, pollution, rising trade and remittances shows that they are also global issues. Today, …
When I first visited Kashmir in 1981, the pros and cons of accession to India or Pakistan inevitably cropped up in conversation. One government official argued that the Kashmiri economy, highly dependent on fruit, had suffered because the state had …
The media and public have deplored the buying and selling of legislators to influence voting in the motion of confidence in Parliament. They have also deplored the spectacle of convicted criminal MPs being released from jail to vote. This has …
India today presents a sorry picture of messed-up opportunities and policies. The government may fall because of Marxist resistance to the Indo-US nuclear deal. The government is too timid to pass on the high price of oil and fertilisers to …
I was a gung-ho liberaliser when economic reforms began in 1991. At the time, a sceptical politician asked me which sectors would benefit most. I replied it was not possible to predict the winners. In that case, he sneered, why …
If I were Prakash Karat, I would topple the Congress-led UPA government in the monsoon session of Parliament starting in July. Why? Because the Congress faces a terrible election climate right now, which might improve by May 2009, when the …
Surging food prices and the Karnataka election once again raise the question, how needy and distressed are Indians? Karnataka has been at the very forefront of India’s record GDP growth of almost 9% per year. But critics claim that rapid …
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