Pulping the Modi script on Muslims
How BJP's panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into 'secular' basement.
An Apology of a Party: AAP, which set out to save India, is struggling to save itself now
The foundation on which AAP was built has all but crumbled. And its promise of changing the system and saving India is now a fading memory.
Lenin’s dead and desecrated. But rules on in Indian economic thought, from Rahul to Modi
The Left is on its political deathbed but its economic ideology still rules India, with Narendra Modi its newest torchbearer.
Change that headline: How Nirav Modi had to make way for Narendra Modi
If big politics is now mostly about headline management, BJP has emerged its unassailable practitioner.
With ‘just two slaps’ at the CM’s home a huge blow dealt to politician-civil servant ties
Fights between politicians and civil servants aren’t new. Physical violence in a CM’s residence is a new low.
If Modi wants a real legacy, he must undo Indira Gandhi’s disastrous bank nationalisation
From Jimmy Nagarwala’s Rs 60 lakh from SBI to Nirav Modi’s Rs 11,000 crore-plus from PNB, India has a 47-year record of scams in govt banks. Why do all govts still love them?
Modi without 272 isn’t Modi, and that’s why he’s kicked off the 2019 campaign
Modi is a constant campaigner. His focus on the Congress may have looked over the top, but there is a purpose to his excess.
Middle of Nowhere Class: When just 2.56% pay 100% of India’s income tax & govt wants more
Governments treat the middle classes rudely and squeeze taxes out of them as they are the usual suspects – without lobbies or electoral power.
When Modi goes to the mountain: Nice speech but India’s ‘rise’ at Davos is still mere talk
This world wants to see hard power, not counsel. India at Davos will remain a mutual admiration society until only Indians fill the halls at India sessions while the world gives a miss.
When one Indian newspaper handed over its big scoop to a rival
It was the only way to ensure the story wasn't killed. And Spielberg's latest, The Post, brings it back to me.
India’s banking system requires a stronger watchdog
RBI’s supervisory capacity needs strengthening — including better training, more specialization and longer tenures for officials, among other measures that the bank itself has recommended.
TalkPoint: One nation, one poll — a good idea or an impractical plan for India?
Recently, the Law Commission released a draft paper supporting 'one nation, one poll.' Experts weigh in on the talks of holding simultaneous elections from the Panchayat to the Parliament in India.
Indian journalists face a brutal equation: Fight together for press freedoms or perish
The media can disagree, fight and judge each other. But it can survive and thrive only by closing ranks when its first principles are under attack.
