NATIONAL INTEREST

THE RACE TO DEMONETISE MODI

Demonetisation is Modi’s make-or-break gambit for 2019. Opposition leaders see a vulnerability and won’t gift pre-eminence to Congress What is...

MAMMARIES OF THE SOCIALIST RAJ

The people caught most unprepared by the PM’s strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They’ve been there, done...

THE WHATSAPP GOVERNANCE

After sharp shifts on strategic policies, demonetisation without data, debate, de-risking or war gaming marks Mr Modi’s governing style An...

VOTER KO CHANGE PASAND HAI

No, it isn’t change for Rs 1,000 or Rs 500 notes. It’s the reason why a post-ideological majority is turning...

DIAL 2016 FOR EMERGENCY

India is complacent if not complicit as in 1975-77. Dangers are bigger now as we have a clear external enemy,...

SOFT POWER, HARD BATTLES

Soft power is not just about movies, sport, music and culture. It’s also about quality of democracy and institutions, moral...

KITNEY PAKISTANI THHEY?

More the better, and better dead than alive. When journalism is reduced to touching simplicities, it begins to self-destruct You...

END OF HISTORY, BEGINNING OF HISTORY

India’s declared strikes have questioned the sanctity of the LoC, raised the nuclear threshold and redefined strategic restraint Smarting under...

FOR WHOM THE BELL TROLLS

Trolling isn’t nice but it isn’t substantive either. That it’s public is a further test of your wisdom and sanity...

GENETICALLY OSSIFIED ABSURDITY

GM is already in our food chain for years. The approval for indigenous GM mustard should put fake fearmongering to...