Isn’t it fascinating how even in such a globalising world it’s foreign policy that is now emerging as a more...
Category: National Interest
It’s Manmohanomics, Manmohan
An essay in the latest Economist (May 29-June 4) that raises the question, “Who put the shine into India?” should...
Best Bakery vs Upper Crust
A full fortnight after the results, you can’t be blamed for being confused as to what this verdict was about...
Mr Vajpayee’s high ground, Mrs Gandhi’s road ahead
It’s always so easy to tell the loser what he did wrong. But you can’t do that to Atal Behari...
The results are in
One remarkable feature of this election is how punditry has been entirely hijacked by pollsters, psephologists and statisticians. No quibble...
New Delhi, New Voter
You ask somebody from the Congress or the BJP what will happen in the coming elections and the answer is...
Postal savings instruments to be dematerialised
In a move revolutionalising the small-savings market, the department of posts (DoP) has, in principle, decided to dematerialise postal savings...
Havildar Shinde, Sergeant Romero
If we’re as sensitive to Shinde’s needs as the Pentagon was to Romero’s, we’d save many lives The unexpectedly large...
Politics in past tense
There could be a simpler explanation as to why this week’s ‘National Interest’ does not talk about the state of...
The HMT Advantage
From Kapil to Kalpana, Karnal to Cape Canaveral: Hail the rise of middle India While so many state governments rush...