A lot has been written on the normalisation of what have come to be called “encounter killings”, the extrajudicial assassinations by men in uniform that are now taking…
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By Ajit Ranade |
Last week we celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, an occasion to dis-cover and rediscover a giant of modern India. His incredible life itself was his…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
According to the RBI, during Q3: 2021-22, the natural rate of interest was worked out to range of 0.8% and 1% as against 1.6% percent and 1.8% estimated earlier for Q4:…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It was not very long ago that spam messages and forwards used to be not about the veracity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's university degrees but about the plethora of…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
No change in the current stance of the policy aimed at ‘withdrawal of accommodation’ was also announced, albeit with one dissent vote. Both the equity and government…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Prime Minister on Tuesday tweeted a message announcing the government’s latest efforts to strengthen the MSMEs by revamping the Credit Guarantee Scheme to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the lawyer Kapil Sibal) two-year sentence by a court in Surat in a…
By Vappala Balachandran |
On March 18, 2023 The New York Times published a story “A Four Decade Secret: One man’s story of Carter’s re-election”. The story set off a flurry of reports all over…
By Ajit Ranade |
In November 2008, just weeks after the Lehman crash, at a high-profile briefing by top academics at the London School of Economics, the Queen asked a simple question.…
By GN Bajpai |
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered defined benefits to retirees. There is much pull for…
By Nachiket Mor |
It is true that we cannot ignore the more commen ailments which, too, cause death and devastation in families, but separating the rare high cost treatments from the more…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray has now come out to say that the Covid-19 pandemic “most likely” started after a…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s relative fast pace of economic growth raises the question: when will India be-come a developed country? In 2002 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had declared…
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For the politicians of this world who keep fighting over territories, who try to differentiate between us or draw dividing lines, I would challenge them to look at a…
By Arun Maira |
When the drumbeats of a $5 trillion and $10 trillion economy don't stir me, business leaders ask me, don't I want India to grow? I say, of course I do. I stand and sing…