This week, India lost its former prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses made a return to Indian bookstores, and Ajay Bhalla was appointed as Manipur Governor. Read our 50-word editorials on these developments and more.
27 December
Manmohan Singh was open-minded socialist. His intellect, simplicity enabled pragmatic shifts
26 December
ED’s misuse of power to seize and search gadgets can’t continue. SC must draft guidelines
Centre’s bureaucratic approach ignores that Manipur’s crisis is political. Biren Singh must go
25 December
The Satanic Verses’ return to bookshelves ends an episode sparked by Rajiv Gandhi losing his nerve
23 December
GST is boomeranging on the idea; it’s encouraging evasion by taxmen
Dr Singh had been out of power and office for a decade. Associated with the Congress Party which has been in the political wilderness, barring stray shafts of light. So the domestic and international pouring of grief and respect, admiration, encomiums, are not something that comes out of a PR machine. An appraisal of a man’s half century in public affairs, culminating in a decade at the apex. A modest man with much to be immodest about.