View: India needs to choose the economy it wants - Toyota or pakora?India must break out of this vicious cycle in which taxes are high, consumer demand is low, investment and job creation are constrained, an...
21 Sep, 2020, 10.50 AM IST
View: Not enough to douse corona fire, govt also needs a roadmap for recoveryIt is now clear that unfettered globalisation is not a blessing — its side-effects are simply unacceptable.
22 Mar, 2020, 01.04 PM IST
View: For the economy to grow, here's what the govt exactly needs to doWhen options are limited, 'reorienting' the State’s priorities is applicable to the businesses it owns.
13 Jan, 2020, 06.17 AM IST
View: India imperils foreign investment with telecom cash grabThe AGR drama may end up setting every wrong precedent possible. Future investors will think twice.
13 Nov, 2019, 01.54 PM IST
View: By grafting welfare measures on rickety Raj structures, our leaders guarantee failureRight from the beginning, policy and decision makers of independent India have ignored a fundamental reality: that the welfare state is, fi...
27 Jun, 2018, 12.52 PM IST
Ban, Mandatory, Compulsory: Three words that define the modus operandi of India’s ruling politiciansOur leaders, especially when in power, are not interested in persuasion, discussion, etc. Why persuade when you can bulldoze them? Why coax...
14 Dec, 2017, 11.53 AM IST
View: PM Narendra Modi shouldn't fall into the Indira trapWe expect our leaders to be formed in her image: powerful, dismissive of democratic limits and of consensus, deliverers of tub-thumping pop...
24 Nov, 2017, 07.06 AM IST
Doubts about India's economic fate are rising as Narendra Modi's power grows. Read whyModi is now unchallenged as a national leader. If he chooses to implement the structural reforms that India badly needs to increase its com...
13 Mar, 2017, 03.13 PM IST
Elusive tryst with destiny: Sixty-eight years into Independence, the market still remains in chainsThe landslide victory of last year invited us to be more imaginative in thinking about the nature of human dignity and to question prejudic...
11 Aug, 2015, 12.58 PM IST
Debt crisis: Here's how Greece can fix itselfIt’s been in default on its sovereign debt for half the years since winning independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832.
27 Jun, 2015, 10.52 AM IST
Poke Me: Middle class should be very wary of AAP's subsidiesThe AAP government in Delhi has been quick off the block to indulge in populism and sheer giveaways, simply to curry favour with the electo...
03 Jan, 2014, 04.56 PM IST
AAP giveaways like power and water sops are fiscally retrogradePlan for nil water charges for up to 667 litres per day, and a sharp rise in rates thereafter, would be an incentive for meter tampering an...
02 Jan, 2014, 04.54 AM IST
- India can't be China: Media messages aren’t responsible for social chaos
The reported move by the government to prosecute some 21 social networking sites for carrying material that promotes 'enmity between classe...
02 Feb, 2012, 09.13 AM IST