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By Jagdish Rattanani |
Many years ago, a plainclothes police officer known as an “encounter specialist”, that uniquely Indian term that has…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s vast, mostly unregulated and fast-growing shadow banking sector is in the midst of a crisis. This is a fire…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has focused on the water crisis facing the nation in his first Mann Ki Baat of the post-…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are a host of considerations that rule, and not all of them are easily fathomed by city folk who tend to prefer…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Even for those who might have held Rajiv Gandhi culpable in the mass of allegations around the Bofors gun, his death…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Yet, somewhere along the heat and dust, unsaid, unmarked and unexplained, the BJP narrative has begun to falter and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is much debate on the Indian National Congress campaign promise of NYAY – justice in English but in Hindi an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This summer will be unusually hot. The rising temperature from what still is only the early round of campaigning is…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Prime Minister has spoken about the attacks on Kashmiris, and he has done so not a day too soon. This is good but…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Ms. Chanda Kochhar is now facing the full brunt of a wide-ranging investigation. Multiple agencies are poised to probe…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
As Gandhiji’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi has rightly remarked, Amit Shah’s remark that he was a clever bania was…
The Reserve Bank of India’s “State Finances: A Study of Budgets 2015-16” is a service to the nation and deserves to be…
By Arun Maira |
The country is open to citizens’ protests: on the streets, in the press, and increasingly in a hyper-active social…
By Yashwant Thorat |
The key sentiment is “please show us the implementation and ensure transmission of policy without leakages”. While the…