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View: Who lost? The economy, stupidNarendra Modi has been handed a blank cheque. He must ensure it doesn’t bounce.
View: Anti-social media in Elections 2019Over the next five weeks, outside the hot and dusty campaign rallies, much of the war will be fought on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok...
Hindu is as Hindu does, but does Modi?This is the in-your-face avatar of the Hindu right that now seeks to dominate national discourse and drown out voices that seem moderate.
Will the NPA black hole suck in the country's entire banking system?With barely nine months to go before the Lok Sabha election, how serious is the crisis in our banking system? Put simply, it is not going t...
Gujarat Assembly Elections: Why there is so much more at stake for PM Narendra Modi this timeHopefully Modi government will move past Gujarat, GST and demonetisation to focus on making sure our economy vaults over the New India bar.
Don't ignore signs of economic slowdownConsumer price index (CPI) inflation fell to 2.2% in May, but that was put down by facile analysis to plunging food prices and a good monso...
View: Yogi Adityanath — will this tiger change its saffron stripes?Will Adityanath tone down his fiery rhetoric in office? He has vowed to turn Uttar Pradesh into Modi's 'dream state', but that phrase can t...
Assembly elections verdict 2016: Why the regional parties are the real winnersFourteen states and Delhi are now ruled by regional parties. These parties that speak the language of development will win over and over ag...
The Sardar, the Pandit and the Loh PurushIt is high time we paid true tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the hero of the Kheda and Bardoli satyagrahas, who was honoured with our ...
The lights go on in BJP’s shop windowModi’s old fellow foot soldier Manohar Lal Khattar, not a household name in Haryana, will take office as CM on the 26th.
Kalki Modi flies on a Jat planeThere is little doubt about the moral decay around us that Modi says he will clean up, while urging his fellow Indians to use toilets, stay...
Elections? economy? hygiene? No, it’s the population!Ajamma Pujari is a 40 year old gardener in Mumbai, our financial capital where over half the population lives in slums.
Jago swachhata prerak! Modi rides in from the WestWhen I lived in Singapore I thought the city republic was obsessively clean — until I visited the Little India neighbourhood.
Totems, idols and symbols: The Modi almanacTwo and a half millennia ago, Chanakya set down hundreds of aphorisms for Chandragupta Maurya. One of them was ‘Naikam chakram paribhramaya...
Modi wanes a little at home and waxes abroadModi's dance card is nearly full: at month's end, Obama will join the long queue of suitors. The last monsoon cloud should have lifted by t...
The tweeting yogi, and other tales from the Modi-namaWhile Modi basks in the afterglow of a series of foreign-policy successes, the yogi has seen fit to broadcast his robust opinion on what ex...
Narendra Modi: One hundred days of latitudeThe good news is that the title of this column is not 'One hundred days of lassitude'. We have a government that appears to be working, war...
How much coal does a crony need?Owing to corruption, government gridlock and inefficiency only about one-tenth of our total reserves of 301 billion tonnes have been alloca...
Lead us from ennui to enlightenmentWe look forward to Modi’s Independence Day speech from the Red Fort for a clearer declaration of intent, and a more electrifying list of go...
When FM can unveil his maiden budget without Planning Commission; must it really exist?Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will declare financial independence when he unveils Budget 2014 without the Planning Commission (PC) breathin...