The story behind the horror stories
As I write this blog, I can see at least five stories on rape, violence against women and child abuse, among others, making up the news list on a day when there hasn’t been much action in the nation’s...
View ArticleMonsoon disappoints, brace up for hard times
This monsoon season we are likely to get up to 10% less rain than a normal year, according to the latest indications from the Met department. If that shortfall was evenly spread across the country, the...
View ArticleHelpless RBI, clueless Government
Nobody expected the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates in its quarterly monetary policy unveiled on Tuesday. Neither did D. Subbarao spring any surprise. The RBI governor, however, sounded unusually...
View ArticleAdvani states obvious, Anna does the expected
LK Advani sees neither the Congress nor his own party, BJP, leading the next government in New Delhi. Not many would disagree with that perception, but few in positions such as that of Advani would be...
View ArticleSingh may not be King again
When the UPA government swung into action last week with a slew of economic “reform” measures, parallels were drawn with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2009 gambit on the India-US nuclear deal. Not...
View ArticleCongress gives eastern India a costly miss, again
When a ruling party goes for a ministerial reshuffle closer to the end of its tenure, the exercise is often expected to be tailored to the upcoming elections. Such conventional wisdom, however,...
View ArticleMining scam: Will Odisha go the Goa way?
Every time I go to Bhubaneswar, I end up making queries about land rates, hoping I would be able to buy a plot for my post-retirement housing. But each time I return disappointed. Land prices and...
View ArticleA request to Mr Aamir Khan: Please take contractors off our nutrition programmes
Dear Mr Khan, It is heartening to see news reports that the government has launched a nationwide campaign against malnutrition amongst children and that you are the ambassador for this noble endeavour....
View ArticleAs housing turn vote catcher, Cong talks sample flat, BJP dangles downpayment
In poll-bound Gujarat, the latest slugfest between the Congress and the BJP is over who can do better in building houses for the new influencers in the state’s politics — people in the low income...
View ArticleResilient Dynamism: What does it mean?
Starting tomorrow, the world’s rich and powerful assemble in Swiss ski resort of Davos for an annual summit that, over the years, has come to mean different things to different people. Some deride as a...
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