How Not to Create Jobs
Nitin Gadkari’s proposal to make kulhads at tea stalls mandatory is harmful Nitin Gadkari is one of the best minds in the current Cabinet. Yet, he now seeks to revive an old failed policy. Once, tea in shops was served …
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India must join US in seeking reforms to WTO
Donald Trump has punctured the notion that the US will support India’s rise as the only Asian nation that can credibly check China’s hegemony in the 21st century. Instead, he declared last week that both China and India are unfair …
CSR spends are no guarantee of corporate ethics
In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Modi said, “Wealth creation is a national service.” He declared, rightly, that wealth creators should be honoured, not pilloried. How does he reconcile this with his absurd new law making it a criminal …
Where’s the Competition?
Tackle the factors that make India uncompetitive, long-term growth’s greatest threat The Indian economy keeps sliding downward. GDP decelerated steadily from 8.2% in the first quarter of 2018-19 to 5.8% in the last quarter. Is this a short-term blip, or …
Next step: A West Bank in Kashmir?
I have long advocated a plebiscite in Kashmir, allowing the Kashmiris to split way if they so choose, as the only moral, liberal solution. Alas, all political parties reject that… Continuing with Article 370 of the Constitution — as many …
Indira Gandhi’s Achhe Din
Bank nationalisation was an economic failure, but a smashing political success Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar The 50th anniversary of the nationalisation of big banks by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has attracted limited comment. Some critics call it a terrible economic …
Without Gandhi glue, Cong will come unstuck
Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as Congress president has been followed by an exodus of Congress MLAs in Karnataka and Goa. The party has long been a bunch of opportunists held together only by dependence on the Gandhis to attain power. Without …
Tech What One Deserves
France shows the way in taxing digital giants and presenting a united front to the US France has enacted legislation to tax digital giants like Amazon and Facebook on their revenue, not profits. India — which levies a 6% tax …
Budget has failed to create an India that can compete
The Economic Survey said rightly that no country had ever grown fast without buoyant exports, and called for policies to generate a virtuous cycle of rising exports, GDP, savings and investment. The budget fails comprehensively to do this. Far from …
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Take a leaf from Gujarat, and let tribals own and operate forests
Draft amendments to the Indian Forest Act have been circulated for comment, and provoked much controversy. The ministry of environment proposes enhanced powers for the police and bureaucrats in dealing with forest tribals to improve forest cover. In 2015, the …
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