The economist tells ThePrint that Indian inequalities are a mixture of ancient features & modern money-based inequalities, including crony capitalism, which the current govt has encouraged.
Piketty was speaking at an event hosted by Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), an autonomous policy research institute.
It turns out in Pakistan, one can fail at any kind of war with India and yet win accolades. Gen Pervez Musharraf lost the 1999 Kargil war yet became president. Gen Ayub Khan, who lost in 1965 as a Field Marshal, would be proud of me today.
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
Trump is not the first American president to propose such a defence system. Ronald Reagan proposed a space-centric Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, but it never took off.
Pakistani establishments and their proxies are prone to severe, predictable 7-year-itch. Each step up the escalation ladder buys India about this many years of deterrence on average.
What is the point having more reservations when government is not in a position to pay salaries and retirement benefits. Many of congress election guarantees are not implemented yet. Debt is rising every month. So they are doing this caste politics. Significant of down trodden families send their children to govt schools, colleges, and universities. But current telangana govt doesn’t put any effort to improve them. Typical congress mindless politics.
What is the point having more reservations when government is not in a position to pay salaries and retirement benefits. Many of congress election guarantees are not implemented yet. Debt is rising every month. So they are doing this caste politics. Significant of down trodden families send their children to govt schools, colleges, and universities. But current telangana govt doesn’t put any effort to improve them. Typical congress mindless politics.