India’s police force, for all its blights and corruption, is overstretched and needs help Like many, I have watched the fascinating Netflix series ‘Delhi Crime’. Unusually, it is told from the viewpoint of a harassed, overworked and unfairly castigated police […]
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The agitating Punjab farmers can be painted as saints or sinners. On the one hand, they spearheaded the Green Revolution in the 1960s when India was starving, helping India become not just self-sufficient but a grain exporter. For this they
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Individual rights are freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Group rights are politics. In a democracy, politicians pander to vote banks and hence often back rights demanded by religious or caste groups. Individual rights do not have the same political clout.
Apex court needs to strike down ‘love jihad’ laws Read More »
Even if there’s a Covid resurgence, India’s economic turnaround is heartening India is recovering from the Covid-19 recession much faster than seemed possible a few months ago. GDP crashed 23.9% in the April-June quarter, among the sharpest falls in the
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Netflix’s documentary ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’ related the lives and scandals of Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Subrata Roy. All three businessmen had political contacts or illegal means of accessing thousands of crores of bank finance. Just imagine what would have
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By winning five seats in the Bihar state election, Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen) has proved it is no longer a fringe player or spoiler. It is now a party that none can ignore. It could become kingmaker in
Time has come for an all-India Muslim party Read More »
An urban employment guarantee scheme poses quite a few serious problems The government is reportedly considering an urban jobs scheme. Some economists hope this can be the start of an Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme, analogous to the Mahatma Gandhi Rural
Countryside, Not Countrywide Read More »
The government has announced a production-linked incentive (PLI) of 4-6% of sales, costing around Rs 200,000 crore (0.7% of GDP) over five years in 11 sectors for companies that commit to invest and increase production massively. This implies India is
India isn’t China. Copying its industrial, trade policy could invite sanctions Read More »
Shashi Tharoor, Rhea Chakraborty and now Arnab Goswami. The social and electronic media are baying for their blood, accusing them of driving somebody — wife, lover, and creditor respectively — to suicide. As argued in earlier columns, this is moral
Neither is suicide a crime, nor can one be driven to it Read More »
The future course of America — and the world — will be determined by past actions of the 46th US president Let Us Give the Donald His Due Many books on Donald Trump’s presidency in 2016-20 will lambast him for
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