Why did Congress fare so badly in the General Election? One reason is that it devised catchy slogans that made media headlines but didn’t translate into votes since they were not grounded in reality. The best example is Rahul Gandhi’s […]
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Why did rising unemployment not hurt Prime Minister Narendra Modi? The latest National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report shows that unemployment has risen to a record 6.1% in 2017-18, almost triple the 2.2% in 2011-12. NSSO claims this is partly
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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 slowed to just 5.8%. Yet Narendra Modi swept the general election. The BJP’s national vote share rose from 31.3% to
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Narendra Modi won the 2014 election with the slogan, “minimum government, maximum governance.” In practice, government intervention in the economy often increased and governance often worsened. Having won a landslide, Modi should return to his old slogan and make “minimum
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Farmers — not activists — prove the case for genetically modified brinjal Haryana has cracked down on genetically modified (GM) brinjal (eggplant). This variety passed field trials back in 2009, but was stalled by alarmist activists, who bludgeoned a timid
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MAY 21, 2019 • POLICY ANALYSIS NO. 869 By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar India’s economic reforms since 1991 have largely been a tale of private‐sector success, government failure, and institutional erosion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the 2014 election with the slogan
A Reform Agenda for the Next Indian Government Read More »
Laugh, your honour, it’s just a joke. Last week, West Bengal Police arrested Priyanka Sharma, a BJP worker, for sharing a meme on the internet that photoshopped the face of chief minister Mamata Banerjee onto the body of a film
It’s time we have Right to Ridicule as basic freedom Read More »
The Election Commission is supposed to ensure free and fair elections, preventing any party from getting preferential treatment in voter outreach. In pursuance of this ideal, says the Commission, it has stopped the biopic ‘PM Narendra Modi’, starring Vivek Oberoi,
BJP’s unfair edge is TV and radio, not Modi biopic Read More »
One of India’s biggest failures is education. Before Independence, India’s best brains came from government schools. Today they are so rotten that poor parents switch their children from free government schools into expensive but better private schools. In a PISA
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We, the people of India, are all Africans, Harappans, Steppe Asians and more While BJP trumpets Hindu nationalism in its election campaign, the question, ‘Who are we?’ has been answered brilliantly by Tony Joseph in a new book, Early Indians:
So Much for Hindu Rashtra Read More »
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