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How toxic climate of opinion singed Vodafone Idea
August 13, 2021, 11:02 AM IST
The demise of Vodafone Idea is highly possible, if not imminent. It will be bad for the promoters, the employees, the bankers concerned, the telecom sector, the economy, indeed the entire nation. The surprise is…
August 13, 2021, 11:02 AM IST
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Mandal lives on
August 4, 2021, 10:40 AM IST
When Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president L.K. Advani began the historic Ram Rath Yatra in October 1990, a pro-BJP journalist said something like Lord Ram was being invoked to slay the demon called Mandal. While…
August 4, 2021, 10:40 AM IST
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UIDAI wants to become another censor board
July 28, 2021, 1:52 PM IST
Not a day passes when the sphere of liberty doesn’t shrink in India. If it is not some tetchy individual or group railing against some movie or book, it is some government doing that. When…
July 28, 2021, 1:52 PM IST
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Evil can’t be rectified; it must be excised
July 19, 2021, 9:17 PM IST
The government’s response to the Supreme Court’s questioning of the legitimacy of the sedition law is symptomatic of our political masters’ attitude towards systemic flaws. Expressing the government’s position, Attorney General KK Venugopal defended the…
July 19, 2021, 9:17 PM IST
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Thought leaders, not political leaders, responsible for lack of reforms
July 5, 2021, 6:26 PM IST
In a recent blog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that India has replaced ‘reforms by stealth and compulsion’ with ‘reforms by conviction and incentives.’ That may true in the specific context he discussed—that is, relating…
July 5, 2021, 6:26 PM IST
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Modi II is not Modi 2.0: India can’t kick-start a virtuous cycle of domestic and foreign investment just by wishing it
July 13, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
The fundamental difference between gods and humans is that while the former just have to wish to cause anything, the latter have to act, and act in a particular fashion, to meet their aspirations. Economic…
July 13, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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The free Congressman’s burden: Party that brought down the world’s greatest empire is in servitude to the Nehru-Gandhis
May 30, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
Defeat, as John F Kennedy said, may be an orphan but it is a fecund parent: it generates a thousand accusations. After Congress’s two successive defeats in general elections, in 2014 and 2019, all the…
May 30, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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We are all Leftists now: More socialism cannot be a cure for the ills of India’s pervasive socialism
April 30, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
Once upon a time, there were two demon brothers – Atapi and Vatapi. They were fond of devouring Brahmins. Vatapi knew the art of transforming himself into non-human forms as also the art of resurrecting…
April 30, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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Mutual assured destruction: Both BJP and Congress are in a populist race to plumb the economic depths
January 7, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
In the final moments of an exciting match commentators often say something to the effect, ‘Whoever wins the match, cricket will be the winner.’ We can say something similar about the next general election, ‘Whichever…
January 7, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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The deep pink state: Governments may come and go, but statist mindset remains the same
November 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Does India have a deep state? Well, not in a conventional sense, not like the one in, say, Pakistan. But it is certainly there: in the realm of economic policy. Decades of socialism seem to…
November 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Are we more free now? In some crucial respects, the pre-independence generation may have enjoyed more freedom
August 14, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
As India celebrates the 71st anniversary of Independence, a blasphemous question is worth asking: are the people of India freer today than they were on August 14, 1947? Blasphemous, because for nationalists, liberals, leftists, intellectuals,…
August 14, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Emperor’s new clothes: By grafting welfare measures on rickety Raj structures, our leaders guarantee failure
June 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
The ongoing Aadhaar imbroglio is symptomatic of not only the rot within India’s welfarism but also its systemic entropy. In fact, if there is one country in which the worst fears of classical liberals as…
June 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Ban, mandatory, compulsory: Three vile words increasingly define the modus operandi of India’s ruling politicians
December 14, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Something is rotten in the statecraft of India. Nothing else explains why three words – ‘ban,’ ‘mandatory,’ and ‘compulsory’ – are most widely used in not only governance and politics but also in public discourse….
December 14, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Tyranny of hurt sentiments: Padmavati controversy typifies how, in India, democracy is made to stand on its head
November 9, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
The needless controversy surrounding the Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed Padmavati is just an episode in the Indian saga of appeasement of the sanctimonious, the mischievous and the tetchy. For too long the enemies of liberty have…
November 9, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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