Agriculture’s share in economic GDP may be below 15 per cent. In the electoral and political equivalent of GDP, it...
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Council of newsmakers
Counting the 12 who count, and never mind some missing zeroes because a captain is ultimately as good as his...
The idea of Pakistan
Power structure of Pakistan entirely lies with its Army. It is about time we, including this writer, conceded that our...
Abki Baar, U-Turn Sarkar
Is making a U-turn necessarily a bad thing in politics and governance? Popular wisdom would say a resounding yes. The...
Reclaiming the road
Why the Salman saga is also about the sidewalk and roads that everybody deserves to share, irrespective of his net-worth...
Rahul’s yankee rap
Congress vice president’s anti-America attack on Modi flies in the face of his family’s and world history. It’ll find few...
Makeover at 44
On the eve of the day when Rahul Gandhi was rumoured to return to Delhi, the Wall Street Journal carried...
Fear of buying
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dramatic purchase of 36 Rafale jets has drawn extreme comments. One, that this is a bold,...
Big Cities, Capital Drain
Can there be anything more pretentious and lazy for a political/current affairs columnist than to use anniversaries of one’s own...
Silence and surround sound
Will Modi seize the reality check that a majority of Indians, including his 2014 voters, do not approve of a...
The man who got it right: Poet, pragmatist, always political
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s greatest, durable legacy is to show that India is best governed with a large heart. Just how...
Until holy cows come home: You call this maximum governance?
If Modi wishes to rise as a tall reformer PM, he must call the RSS/VHP bluff now. When Devi Lal...