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Chinese economy is feeling the heat. Blame Xi’s political Lysenkoism, vaccination policy
Smarting from the failures of his Great Leap Forward campaign, which hit the economy hard, Mao launched the 1962 war with India to rally the nation behind him.
RBI data reveals demonetisation was the epitome of whimsical, illogical policymaking
The government wanted demonetisation to combat three problems. None of them seem to have been solved.
Defence
Behind teen’s ‘abduction’ on LAC in Arunachal, a legacy of colonial maps, empires and wars
It's not clear which side of LAC Miram Taron was on when he was ‘kidnapped’. Different perceptions of the border in India & China and competing maps make this tricky ground.
How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.