While we latch on to Vajpayee-the-ideal-PM aspect of the survey, we are missing out a very significant point: that power equations are changing so fast that a telecom moghul is at the top of the most powerful men list.
In the Sri Lankan civil war what coloured our judgment was not ethnic affections but the compulsions of Tamil Nadu politics. This was Rajiv Gandhi's great blunder.
The argument that funding a cultural or intellectual institution gives the govt every right to choose who runs it, how and what kind of ideas it produces, is a dangerous one.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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