India-Pakistan joint statement committing to restoring peace on the LoC is a relief to all. How long this lasts will always be a question, given their fraught relationship. But in today’s strategic realities, peace is the only choice for both countries. We will risk erring on the side of optimism.
Private banks getting govt business is progressive, will make PSBs competitive and efficient
Allowing all private banks to get government business is progressive, will create a level playing field and offer better service to government customers. The much-needed competition can also push public sector banks to improve efficiency. As PM Narendra Modi said, public sector is important, so is participation of private enterprise.
‘Narendra Modi Stadium’ is unsportsmanlike. India doesn’t need sitting PMs to be deified
Saying that naming Ahmedabad’s awesome new cricket stadium after PM Narendra Modi ‘isn’t cricket’ is an understatement. It’s bad politics, worse optics and unsportsmanlike. BJP is counting the Nehru-Gandhi landmarks. Ninety nine wrongs can’t justify the hundredth. India doesn’t need serving PMs to be deified like in classical authoritarian states.
BJP should not have started this personality cult of naming things after the PM. BJP has been claiming to be a party with difference. But, this is the worst emulation of Congress culture.
Peace with Pak will last until next BJP election, when a whipping boy is needed again. Unless PLA has shown its might again at doorstep to make feku & his gangs tremble.
Between India and Pakistan, it has, sadly for the sentimental Punjabi in me, always been one step forward, two steps back. So one will not rush to apply for a tourist visa, to take wife to the land from where one half of our children’s DNA has originated. 2. Three nuclear armed adversaries coming so close to war, twice, is not a sustainable situation. There is now a statesman in the Oval Office. New opportunities are opening up. On something as easy to measure as the economy, both pre and post Covid, we are not setting the slopes of Davos on fire. 3. India’s Chief Diplomat knows the world like the back of his hand. May it be his great privilege to preside over a more productive phase of our foreign policy.
When private airlines started, family switched to them. I clung on to Indian Airlines for a while, thinking buying their ticket was putting money into government coffers.
New York is the world’s greatest city. What an abiding honour for its principal gateway to be named after one its most charismatic Presidents, cut down in his prime. The Washington monument. Now also one in memory of Dr Martin Luther King, a tribute to all Black Americans, their remarkable odyssey in a land they were brought to in chains. With eleven mighty aircraft carriers – four acres of sovereign territory – each outgoing President gets his due. All in good time, in sequence.