Big corporate hospitals in India that benefit from medical tourism have a stake in the welfare of foreign patients’ lives. They deserve hygienic, liveable residences, not being relegated to unauthorised ghettos and crummy, hole-in-the-wall accommodations. Fires in such neighbourhoods sully India’s brand as medical tourism destination. Hospitals have responsibilities too.
PM Modi must move on from Nehru obsession. Compete with Xi Jinping instead
Celebrations over Modi becoming the longest-serving ‘elected PM’ are in order, but Nehru-bashing isn’t. He made errors but also created institutions that built modern India’s foundation. Move on from the Nehru obsession. Compete with Xi Jinping instead. Nehru died 62 years ago. Take challenges for the future, not the past.
More than President Xi, the stellar examples from Asia would be Paramount Leader Deng of China and PM LKY of Singapore. Singapore’s journey to the First World within a generation is a fantastic success story. LKY deserves a lot of credit. However, Deng’s task was more formidable. A canvas comparable in size to India’s. The burden of rigid communist orthodoxy, when the need was to create an economy guided by market principles.