It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
The advent of 24/7 News channels set in motion a race for oneupmanship and TRPs among them that led to ‘creating’news if there was none, or only ‘half a news’, available’. These Editors had never heard the saying “No news is Good News.” Embellishing and exaggerating, repetition of images and videos ad nauseam, and display of sensational visuals ( even File pictures and stories) became the order of the day. This further descended into utter chaos with the so called “TV Debates”, a euphemism for ‘Shout to be heard above all the others’ and ‘keep repeating your brief’ by the participants deputed to present their political party’s views. They have bettered ( or have become worse than) their counterparts elsewhere.
The advent of 24/7 News channels set in motion a race for oneupmanship and TRPs among them that led to ‘creating’news if there was none, or only ‘half a news’, available’. These Editors had never heard the saying “No news is Good News.” Embellishing and exaggerating, repetition of images and videos ad nauseam, and display of sensational visuals ( even File pictures and stories) became the order of the day. This further descended into utter chaos with the so called “TV Debates”, a euphemism for ‘Shout to be heard above all the others’ and ‘keep repeating your brief’ by the participants deputed to present their political party’s views. They have bettered ( or have become worse than) their counterparts elsewhere.