The Times of India

Dear Yogi Adityanath, Many chief ministers — Naveen Patnaik, Nitish Kumar, Shivraj Chouhan, Narendra Modi — won re-election repeatedly because decent economic policy plus improved governance yielded 9-10% GDP growth for years. If you do the same in UP, you […]

Dear Yogi Adityanath, Many chief ministers — Naveen Patnaik, Nitish Kumar, Shivraj Chouhan, Narendra Modi — won re-election repeatedly because decent economic policy plus improved governance yielded 9-10% GDP growth for years. If you do the same in UP, you

Uttar Pradesh has long been one of the worst administered states. Children\’s deaths in Gorakhpur recently hogged the headlines, but are hardly new. Ex-bureaucrat V Ramani has unearthed an RTI re sponse showing that between January 1, 2009 and November

Of India\’s many subsidies, the kerosene subsidy is the worst. Yet it has been such a sacred cow that no government has dared tackle it for decades. Different states levy different taxes, but in most cities subsidised kerosene retails at

Among the worst examples of judicial overreach was last week\’s declaration by the Madras High Court that the singing of Vande Mataram should be made compulsory in schools, colleges and both government and private offices, including, presumably , The Times

Having established a reputation as an incrementalist who shuns radical change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suddenly changed expectations by opting to privatise Air India. This is such a huge public sector giant with so many subsidiaries and lakhs of

Bubble ahoy! Across the world, stock markets are inflating crazily. Don\’t think that the Sensex boom is driven by Indian policies and economic results. Rather, global markets are highly interconnected today , and typically rise and fall together. The Sensex

Prime Minister Modi and his partymen wax eloquent about the need to tackle and end terrorism. But what exactly is terrorism? The dictionary definition is “the unlawful use of violence and in timidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of

Forget the Bush-Manmohan Singh vision of a nuclear power renaissance. Recent developments -cheap solar power plus the bankruptcy of Westinghouse -call for a total overhaul of nuclear plans that now look obsolete, dangerous and ultra-costly . I say this as

Forget the Bush-Manmohan Singh vision of a nuclear power renaissance. Recent developments -cheap solar power plus the bankruptcy of Westinghouse -call for a total overhaul of nuclear plans that now look obsolete, dangerous and ultra-costly . I say this as