Indian politicians and diplomats fear China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which aims to finance and build massive infrastructure projects in 78 countries, controlling infrastructure running through Asia and Europe. China believes this will help it dominate the 21st century.

India’s middle class, supported by many opposition parties, wants a cut in fuel taxes to stem the sharp rise in petrol and diesel prices. This would be wrong for several reasons. The same political and middle classes claim they want

In these columns last week, I noted that lacklustre GDP growth in Modi’s first four years boded ill for his re-election chance in 2019, and that he badly needed to accelerate growth in his final year to 8%. That might

No election was ever won because of statistical revisions. Yet the recent revisions to GDP data, backdated to 1993-94, have sparked intense political debate. The revisions show that GDP growth averaged a record 8.87% during the first term of the

Even as the trade deficit has widened to record levels and exports remain below the 2013-14 peak, the government is crippling one of the few sectors where India has a huge export potential — livestock and meat. A combination of

What is to be done about the four million people in Assam who failed to get into the draft list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) that aims to determine who are legal citizens? The NRC will hold another

In the recent Lok Sabha debate, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Modi runs a “suited-booted” government that favours rich cronies while neglecting the poor. Modi fired back at an investment summit in Lucknow. He declared he was not