The 1970s was the first time when the rose-tinted glasses came off; the socialist fantasy clashed with the harsh reality of a growing population and rising corruption in the public distribution system.
In 2026, the ruthless politicians, gullible masses, corruption, hunger, arson, rape, and murder have all become more vital and brazenly out in the open, no longer hidden but displayed with startling openness and frequency.
The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.
To every economic policy, we must apply the acid test—how far will it bend our people to fruitful ends and how far will it dissipate them in coping with a bumbling bureaucracy, Palkhivala wrote in 1977.
Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.
The results of the CES 2022-23 showed a dramatic decline in poverty. It didn’t take long for economists to identify the problems: a faulty methodology and the lack of transparency.
We shouldn't feel the need to go to such lengths to ensure fairness. UPSC pursuit must be driven by better reasons, not by fear of exclusion, marginalisation, or desire for privileges.
Malema's pledge to redress persistent racial and economic disparities resonates with his constituents which include tens of thousands of unemployed, disenfranchised urban Black youth.
As per findings of the HCES 2022-23 conducted by NITI Aayog, less than 5% of Indians are now expected to be below the poverty line and extreme destitution has almost gone away.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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