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Rejoinder on NREGA
November 19, 2014, 9:03 PM IST
by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya Our Times of India (October 23 2014) critique of 28 economists’ letter defending NREGA (October 13 2014) has elicited a further response by only six of them in the…
November 19, 2014, 9:03 PM IST
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What one entrepreneur is doing for clean water
November 19, 2014, 7:57 AM IST
India is truly a very enterprising country and Prime Minster Modi is right when he says that the government just has to be an enabler and get rid of cumbersome licenses, inspections and work on…
November 19, 2014, 7:57 AM IST
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Scavenging Nehru: An opportunistic alliance between erstwhile foes does not serve the cause of secularism
November 19, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
It has taken celebrations of Jawaharlal Nehru’s 125th birth anniversary to bring together a range of so-called secular parties as a potential front against a rising BJP. But it’s going to take a lot more…
November 19, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Australia is more than just cricket to India and Modi’s diplomacy shows why
November 19, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
As the first Indian prime minister to visit Australia in 28 years, Narendra Modi has not only re-ignited what he called a “natural partnership” with Canberra but also impressed Australian audiences with what is now…
November 19, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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Soft censorship: The media today faces twin threats to its freedoms and its very existence
November 19, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Over the last week, news reports of gender segregation in Aligarh Muslim University have snowballed into a national issue following indiscreet statements by its vice chancellor that appeared to justify denial of access to undergraduate…
November 19, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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TOI won’t be cowed down, truth will prevail
November 18, 2014, 6:56 AM IST
The ‘ban’ on this newspaper in Aligarh Muslim University and the virtual banishment of our correspondent from the campus is only the latest example of the kind of pressure that is sought to be brought…
November 18, 2014, 6:56 AM IST
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Romancing the NRI: Modi must follow up his successful speeches abroad by connecting India to its diaspora
November 18, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
Enthusiastic responses to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diaspora address in Sydney matched those at New York’s Madison Square Garden, showcasing the reach of a civilisational India that’s larger than India as nation-state. It’s not Modi’s…
November 18, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
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Shuttle renaissance: Historic China Open triumphs by Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth show way ahead for Indian sport
November 18, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Not many Indians, including her own coach, fancied Saina Nehwal’s chances of winning the China Open Series. Even fewer would have given Kidambi Srikanth, the 21 year old lad from Guntur down with brain fever…
November 18, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Why India can’t have its BBC
November 18, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
Why can’t India have its own BBC? This question pops up at fairly regular intervals, especially in ‘cocktail circuits’, where the rather provincial presentation of Doordarshan comes up. It also features in media discourses, with…
November 18, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
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Nehru was torn between loving Chinese civilisation and securing Indian border
November 18, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
It is edifying to read Jawaharlal Nehru’s letters about Chinese history written to Indira Gandhi from his prison cell in Dehradun in the early 1930s. His insights into the origins and evolution of Chinese civilization…
November 18, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
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Saga of the potato cutlet
November 18, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
When you sit down at a six-star function and break the news that meat isn’t neat The trouble with all these very swank restaurants is that if you are a vegetarian they simply collapse and…
November 18, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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Grow in India: Resolving farm crisis requires a national market underpinned by greater competition and less price fixing
November 17, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
Thanks to inefficiency, sloth and corruption food loaders at the state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) earn six-figure salaries of up to Rs 4 lakh per month, while the actual work is outsourced to “proxy…
November 17, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Don’t junk German: Smriti Irani’s fiat asking Kendriya Vidyalayas to replace it with Sanskrit harms students
November 17, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
At the Brisbane G20 summit, a prime objective for Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to drum up investor interest in India. Yet this objective was undermined at home thanks to an ill-advised fiat from the…
November 17, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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Cricket, curry and commerce: India and Australia begin to celebrate things in common as Modi wins heart there
November 17, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
India and Australia share much in common as vibrant, functioning, multicultural democracies. Additionally, curry and cricket seem to have facilitated a better bond between the two countries! Melbourne alone is said to have over 500…
November 17, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Compelling people to vote will empower big money, not citizens
November 16, 2014, 4:41 AM IST
Make no mistake about it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a believer in compulsory voting and the new Gujarat law that has just received the assent of the state’s governor could well become the template…
November 16, 2014, 4:41 AM IST
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Modi in Myanmar: At Asean meet, PM outlines the contours of ‘Act East’ policy
November 15, 2014, 2:04 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ongoing three-nation tour is being watched with keen interest by all those interested in deciphering subtle differences between India’s ‘Look East’ and ‘Act East’ policies. The first leg of the PM’s…
November 15, 2014, 2:04 AM IST
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Congress and BJP in tug of war to claim Nehru, Patel and Gandhi
November 15, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
In what might appropriately be described as a situation of a rose caught between two thorns, on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary Jawaharlal Nehru – the acknowledged ‘Chacha’ of the nation – finds…
November 15, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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How Swachh Bharat can succeed
November 15, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Of the numerous initiatives that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, which would give Mahatma Gandhi the gift of a clean India on his 150th birth anniversary on October 2, 2019, has…
November 15, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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The day Kim Kardashian’s butt went psycho, rear-ending the net
November 15, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
The Kardashian girls have been at the front of the rear-end movement for quite some time now. Particularly Kim, who has been slowly but steadily flashing us over a decade till the day her butt…
November 15, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
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Climate breakthrough: US-China deal should prompt Delhi to pursue emission targets
November 14, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
The unveiling of a secretly negotiated deal between the US and China — whereby both countries have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — marks a watershed moment in global efforts to fight climate change….
November 14, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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