India's political class unites on economic populism, sidelining market reforms. With welfare schemes dominating, the call for liberalization and deregulation is fading away.
Vinoba Bhave inspired many people to donate their land for collective ownership in the 1950s and 60s. Now, some Gramdan villages are fighting for ‘freedom’.
A DDA flat was a privilege in a city where almost nobody could build anything. Its inventory of unsold flats now exceeds 40,000 at a value of Rs 18,000 crore, and it's still building more.
There is a real danger that India will lose another 70 years if we get a government that is captive to woke, socialist, anti-capitalist fiscally imprudent ideologies.
You can’t take on BJP’s aggressive nationalism with an abstract internationalism; positive nationalism of Indian socialists can be the effective antidote.
Speaking at the UP Legislative Assembly, the CM said India doesn't need communism or socialism but Ram Rajya, which he described as eternal, universal & not affected by circumstances.
A CPI district secretary from Tamil Nadu's Salem named his sons Communism, Socialism and Leninism to 'reflect communist ideology'. His son Socialism will marry Mamata Banerjee namesake on 13 June.
India, more an electoral democracy than a system-respecting republic, is moving in the direction of pre-socialist Britain, with powerful billionaires controlling the state.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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