Dear Yogiji, for UP’s growth, be bullish on buffalo
Dear Yogi Adityanath, Many chief ministers — Naveen Patnaik, Nitish Kumar, Shivraj Chouhan, Narendra Modi — won re-election repeatedly because
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Can Yogi do more for electricity than gau raksha?
Uttar Pradesh has long been one of the worst administered states. Children’s deaths in Gorakhpur recently hogged the headlines, but
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Cash In on Demonetisation
After political dividends, notebandi can also yield economic dividends In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said demonetisation
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Time to end the worst subsidy of all: kerosene
Of India’s many subsidies, the kerosene subsidy is the worst. Yet it has been such a sacred cow that no
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In the End, Bihar’s Better Off
The Nitish-BJP gathbandhan will be better for governance and growth Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, once seen as a possible
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Nobody should be forced to sing Vande Mataram
Among the worst examples of judicial overreach was last week’s declaration by the Madras High Court that the singing of
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Why Modi won’t privatise public sector banks
Having established a reputation as an incrementalist who shuns radical change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suddenly changed expectations by
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A Doleful, Wasteful Idea
A universal basic income that makes it feasible to avoid working is immoral A Delhi seminar last week discussed what
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Watch out for trouble beyond Sensex bubble
Bubble ahoy! Across the world, stock markets are inflating crazily. Don’t think that the Sensex boom is driven by Indian
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