Subramanian fails the smell test no less than India’s GDP data
Arvind Subramanian, former Chief Economic Advisor, says in a sensational newspaper column that India’s GDP growth rate since 2011 has
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Congress gave slogans, Modi made them real
Why did Congress fare so badly in the General Election? One reason is that it devised catchy slogans that made
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Notwithstanding No Naukri
Why did rising unemployment not hurt Prime Minister Narendra Modi? The latest National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report shows that
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BJP’s rural votes show talk of farm crisis misleading
Annual GDP growth fell from 6.9% in 2017-18 to 6.8% in 2018-19. Worse, GDP in the latest January-March 2019 quarter
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Why Modi needs to return to his old slogan
Narendra Modi won the 2014 election with the slogan, “minimum government, maximum governance.” In practice, government intervention in the economy
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Oh, Let Baigan Be Baigan!
Farmers — not activists — prove the case for genetically modified brinjal Haryana has cracked down on genetically modified (GM)
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It’s time we have Right to Ridicule as basic freedom
Laugh, your honour, it’s just a joke. Last week, West Bengal Police arrested Priyanka Sharma, a BJP worker, for sharing
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BJP’s unfair edge is TV and radio, not Modi biopic
The Election Commission is supposed to ensure free and fair elections, preventing any party from getting preferential treatment in voter
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This island of excellence stands out in a rotten educational system
One of India’s biggest failures is education. Before Independence, India’s best brains came from government schools. Today they are so
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