Mr Speaker, you’ve got it wrongThe speaker of the Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee, thinks he is batting on behalf of the people when he periodically rails against the judiciary.
February 27, 2008
Needed: Housing reforms, not sopsOne need not quarrel with anyone’s interest rate preferences, but if the logic is that lower interest rates will help the middle-class buy more homes cheaper, it’s not going to work.
February 20, 2008
Passivity as a national characterIf there is one country where individuals can make a difference, it is India. I don’t mean this in the sense it is normally understood; I am saying it cynically.
February 13, 2008
The MNS and the burdens of sanityMaharashtrian vote, encouraged an attack on hapless north Indian taxi-drivers this week in the hope that the Marathi manoos will now see him as their savior.
February 6, 2008
Religion as a marketing toolYou can do your own due diligence and find the right opportunities to invest. Forming a public vehicle to meet that objective is a partial fraud. Investors beware.
January 23, 2008
The Left as public sector enemyIt is convenient to think of India’s Left as champions of the public sector. In this article, one would like to suggest that they are its worst enemies.
January 16, 2008
Using roads should now cost moreThe launch of the Tata small car (‘the Rs1 lakh car’) will force governments — especially the municipalities — to review their road pricing strategies.
January 9, 2008
Hindutva & mass-market religionThe conflict for political and cultural identity could use similar analogies. The world two biggest religions — Christianity and Islam — are aggressive market share builders.
January 3, 2008
Hope 2008: It’s time to give individuals a tax holiday nowLast year, the government undeservedly earned Rs10,50,000 crore —that’s nearly Rs9,000 for every Indian citizen — but didn’t know what to do with it.
January 1, 2008
The damage secularists doI am all for bashing the Parivar for the right reasons, but to believe that they are the only communalists in town is simply not credible.
December 27, 2007
No such thing as anti-incumbencyBy the coming Sunday, we will know whether Narendra Modi has won or lost. What we will not know is why. Not because political analysts don’t have explanations.
December 19, 2007
There’s a Modi everywhereGujarat strongman Narendra Modi may deserve all the brickbats he gets, but it’s actually time to ask ourselves this: why do we love to hate him?
December 12, 2007
Why caste still winsThe caste system is under pressure. Urbanisation and market forces have blunted its sting, but it is also adapting and mutating to survive.
November 28, 2007
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