India must break out of this vicious cycle in which taxes are high, consumer demand is low, investment and job creation are constrained, an...

It is now clear that unfettered globalisation is not a blessing — its side-effects are simply unacceptable.

When options are limited, 'reorienting' the State’s priorities is applicable to the businesses it owns.

The AGR drama may end up setting every wrong precedent possible. Future investors will think twice.

Right from the beginning, policy and decision makers of independent India have ignored a fundamental reality: that the welfare state is, fi...

Our leaders, especially when in power, are not interested in persuasion, discussion, etc. Why persuade when you can bulldoze them? Why coax...

We expect our leaders to be formed in her image: powerful, dismissive of democratic limits and of consensus, deliverers of tub-thumping pop...

Modi is now unchallenged as a national leader. If he chooses to implement the structural reforms that India badly needs to increase its com...

The landslide victory of last year invited us to be more imaginative in thinking about the nature of human dignity and to question prejudic...

It’s been in default on its sovereign debt for half the years since winning independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832.

The AAP government in Delhi has been quick off the block to indulge in populism and sheer giveaways, simply to curry favour with the electo...

Plan 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...

The reported move by the government to prosecute some 21 social networking sites for carrying material that promotes 'enmity between classe...