Ambedkar reminded us that liberty, equality, and fraternity are inseparable. Liberty without equality breeds privilege, and equality without fraternity breeds resentment.
IndiGo has built a brand on efficiency, but efficiency without resilience creates fragility. And fragility at the scale of a 60% market share becomes a national aviation risk.
India is quietly entering its own era of green protectionism, using tariffs and localisation to build clean-energy supply chains and cut reliance on China as it races toward 2030 goals.
A damning indictment of media culture that trivialises a deadly criminal probe with sexist spectacle, misinforming viewers and turning a tragedy that killed 13 into entertainment.
What India needs now is a coherent, principled, and morally compelling Opposition strategy—one that does not merely react to crisis but reimagines the Republic itself.
HAL isn’t ready for the big league. HAL is hailed as a “Maharatna”. In truth, it is a protected monopoly supplier to a monopsony customer—the Government of India.
IndiGo’s mass flight cancellations left thousands stranded in chaotic airports with soaring fares, misleading updates and no support, raising urgent questions on airline accountability.
Tejas crash has renewed scrutiny of HAL’s capabilities, but its simpler trainer aircraft—HJT-36 and HTT-40—may offer India a stronger path to exports, indigenisation and global defence ties.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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