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To fulfil his economic agenda, Modi must manage his party’s cultural right
December 29, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
Just when BJP is triumphantly sweeping polls in state after state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government appears to have hit a wall in Parliament. It has been a brilliant year for BJP and Modi’s great…
December 29, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
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Sanskrit, taught well, can be as rewarding as economics
December 14, 2014, 6:20 AM IST
There was a time when I used to believe like Diogenes the Cynic that I was a citizen of the world, and I used to strut about feeling that one blade of grass is much…
December 14, 2014, 6:20 AM IST
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Can our best salesman sell us the free market?
November 2, 2014, 7:11 AM IST
Too many Indians still believe that the market makes “the rich richer and the poor poorer” and leads to corruption and crony capitalism. This is false, of course. Despite the market having generated broad-spread prosperity…
November 2, 2014, 7:11 AM IST
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An idiot-proof and swachh guide to nationalism
October 12, 2014, 6:36 AM IST
Civic virtue seldom comes naturally to human beings. It needs constant, relentless reminding and nowhere more than in India, which is still struggling to create citizens out of its people. The word ‘civic’ comes from…
October 12, 2014, 6:36 AM IST
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Cautious optimism is the verdict on Modi’s 100 days
September 7, 2014, 6:35 AM IST
Indians elected Narendra Modi to create masses of jobs, give good governance, and control inflation. It is too soon to tell if he will keep his three promises. The first hundred days indicate how he…
September 7, 2014, 6:35 AM IST
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Two months on, mantra’s clear: Less talk, more action
August 3, 2014, 5:51 AM IST
It’s been a little over two months since the Modi sarkar came to power. Too soon, perhaps, for a definitive assessment, but there are signs of change; patterns are emerging; and even hints of a…
August 3, 2014, 5:51 AM IST
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After months of talk, it’s go time for new PM
July 6, 2014, 6:48 AM IST
John Ruskin, the 19th century British art critic, once re marked that the greatest contribution that an aristocratic duke could make to the modern world would be to take a job as a grocer. This…
July 6, 2014, 6:48 AM IST
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Modi’s moment is about middle class dignity
June 1, 2014, 6:59 AM IST
If Indians won their political freedom in August 1947 and their economic freedom in July 1991, they have attained dignity in May 2014. This is the significance of Narendra Modi’s landslide victory. The hopes and…
June 1, 2014, 6:59 AM IST
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Modi shouldn’t forget Fareed and millions like him
May 4, 2014, 2:52 AM IST
It has been an exhilarating month. We have marvelled at the sights and sounds of India’s great election mela on our television screens. The image, most memorably etched in my mind is of a confident…
May 4, 2014, 2:52 AM IST
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Secularism or growth? The choice is yours
April 6, 2014, 6:14 AM IST
This month’s national election may well be the most important in India’s history. Our country faces a limited window of oppor tunity called the ‘demographic dividend’ and if we elect the right candidate, prosperity will…
April 6, 2014, 6:14 AM IST
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Elect to transform India with eight big ideas
March 2, 2014, 5:35 AM IST
The world is divided between optimists and pessimists. Optimists believe that if the government invests in infrastructure, removes barriers facing entrepreneurs, jobs will multiply, the economy will grow and the country will gradually turn middle-class….
March 2, 2014, 5:35 AM IST
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Modern marriages aren’t made in heaven
February 2, 2014, 5:53 AM IST
In the past few weeks, sexual tragedies have blighted some prominent and attractive lives. Sunanda Pushkar, wife of the writer and minister, Shashi Tharoor, died recently in Delhi. Around the same time, the French First…
February 2, 2014, 5:53 AM IST
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Inflation, not corruption, will be the key issue in LS polls
January 19, 2014, 5:20 AM IST
In the last assembly elections, the aam admi complained inconsolably of rising prices. TV clips showed voters quoting the prices of potatoes, onions, and dal. Pundits put it down to the ‘usual election whining’, but…
January 19, 2014, 5:20 AM IST
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Desire or dharma: Dilemma that is as old as the vedas
December 8, 2013, 5:52 AM IST
Over the past few weeks,we have been mesmerized by the tragic story of Tarun Tejpal. He was a moral voice to a whole generation , looked up to for courageous and uncompromising journalism. The evidence…
December 8, 2013, 5:52 AM IST
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Our bullion-dollar troubles can end if India goes for gold
November 10, 2013, 12:49 AM IST
It was a subdued Diwali this year. Gold trading on Dhanteras was down by 50%. Traders blamed it on mostly on the lack of gold supply which was 83% lower than last year. But policy…
November 10, 2013, 12:49 AM IST
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Secularism or development: Making the right choice
October 13, 2013, 6:11 AM IST
At long last India’s democracy is moving in the right direction in offering voters genuine choices in the upcoming general elections. One of these is a choice between “left of centre” and “right of centre”economic…
October 13, 2013, 6:11 AM IST
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Long-term prosperity vs short-term populism
September 15, 2013, 5:01 AM IST
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards,” says an epitaph from the philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard. It rightly belongs on the grave of this dying UPA government that has destroyed our…
September 15, 2013, 5:01 AM IST
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Durga Sakthi is our moral mirror
August 11, 2013, 6:33 AM IST
Why is it that no one was surprised by the arbitrary suspension of Durga Sakthi Nagpal, a young IAS officer, who was only doing her job as sub-divisional magistrate in Gautam Budh Nagar? When she…
August 11, 2013, 6:33 AM IST
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Just one hour a week is the answer to our political discontent
July 14, 2013, 3:18 AM IST
Democracy is as depressing in practice as it is uplifting in theory. There have been so many corruption scandals in the past few years but political parties refuse to learn. In Uttar Pradesh, which always…
July 14, 2013, 3:18 AM IST
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Waiting for inspiration, sirji!
June 9, 2013, 5:43 AM IST
The spot fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League of cricket is only the latest disgrace in the sickening, never ending saga of moral failure in our national life. We have got so used to…
June 9, 2013, 5:43 AM IST
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