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Politicians, Plutocrats

In a poor country like India, public representatives had to appear poor to garner sympathy from their constituents. It was no accident that Mahatma...

21.05.2024 20

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Downward Trajectory

Expressing his disappointment at bureaucratic non-performance, in a longish speech in Parliament, on 10 February 2021, PM Modi broke an unspoken...

03.05.2024 10

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Holocene vs. Anthropocene

Recently, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) refused to recognise the current geological time as the Anthropocene (Human) Epoch...

24.04.2024 20

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The turncoat’s day

The General Elections, slated to begin shortly, have begun to resemble a roadside circus, if not theatre of the absurd. Ignoring pressing problems...

15.04.2024 10

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Bridging Inequality

Looking at the ever-increasing size of the Union Budget, doubling every three years, Finance Ministers are hard pressed to generate resources to meet...

08.04.2024 20

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Elections and the Public

A former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) had described elections as ‘the dance of democracy,’ but unfortunately, according to the present CEC,...

25.03.2024 10

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Changing Equations

The doctrine of separation of powers, which means that the legislature will lay down the law, the executive will implement the law and the judiciary...

20.03.2024 6

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Economy in Review

Every year, a day before the Union Budget, the Chief Economic Adviser comes out with the Economic Survey for the year. This year, breaking with...

13.03.2024 20

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Taxation Travails

This being an election year, the Budget proposed by the Government had no new taxation provisions. Thus, the Income-tax Act that had been amended...

05.03.2024 8

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Devaluation

There was a time when devaluation of a country’s currency was a national tragedy; devaluation of the Indian rupee in 1949, 1966 and 1991 caused...

26.02.2024 9

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The Indian Dream

The sorry episode at Vatry airport, in the eastern Marne region of France, where a flight from Dubai to Nicaragua, carrying 303 Indian passengers was...

28.01.2024 10

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Rights in Retreat

‘Human rights’ is probably the most abused phrase in the international political lexicon. The US, which is mindful of human rights violations in...

01.01.2024 10

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The Rajan Effect

The visit of Dr Raghuram Rajan, a former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, and a former Chief Economic Advisor, has generated a great deal of...

26.12.2023 50

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