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CBI files six chargesheets in Mahadev betting app caseThe CBI has filed six chargesheets in the Mahadev betting app corruption case. Founders Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal are named as accu...
Modi's patronage to hate politics has brought disgrace to India, says AAPThe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) targeted the prime minister after the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) slammed India for comments by two...
Bengal has fought many battles on ideological fronts. This time around the election feels more like a circusPoll-bound Bengal is more like a circus than ever, with film and popular personalities of lesser standing making almost daily appearances i...
Congress attacks move to appoint P Sathasivam as Kerala GovernorCongress today wondered whether there was anything in the former CJI's "persona" that "pleased" Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Amit Shah.
Jat reservation: Irrational extension of patronage politicsThis defines what India’s politics continues to mostly be: a process, or rather a playing off, of competitive identity management.
Can 2014 bring a paradigm shift in India's political funding culture?A gross failing of Indian democracy has been entrenched, systemic corruption, and political funding is at the root of this malaise.
It's high time to reform political fundingThis means India's largest companies and rich individuals making their political contributions openly, by cheque.
Indian economy is held back by licence-raj era politics that calls out for urgent reformShortcomings of India’s democracy are holding down the Indian economy. The point is to tackle these, not blame any individual for all ills.
Poke Me: Why Indian democracy can't live without corruptionYou don't need to be an IRS bureaucrat to realise the incestuous relationship between politics and corruption in India. Share your views wi...
- Team Anna should try to clean up the political system from within
To root corruption out of the system, one has to be part of the democratic process, and change the nature of the beast from within.
- Renewing India calls for a new breed of politics
Renewing India calls for a new breed of politics, and business must offer support.
- Governance reform needed to boost economic reforms
Reform needs booster energy, all the time because they make their way against heavy odds: dead habit & deadly vested interest.
- Where is a proactive initiative on corruption?
The Prime Minister did well to call for law enforcement agencies to carry out their inquiry into minister Maran’s alleged misdeeds without ...
- Jat agitation: Obsolete patronage
Reservation politics ignores the real site of social power in the era of globalisation.
- Dirty secret of India’s political economy
The Economic Survey tucks away a little, dirty secret of India’s political economy in a box on power sector reform.
- Right on Mr Tata
Mr Ratan Tata did not exactly offer a blinding new insight when he talked of political power being used to collect rent or offer patronage.
- Déjà vu on reservation
Quotas have become a battleground of sorts with social groups.