The brazen arrogance with which Supreme Court orders have been flouted in harassing citizens to link their mobile numbers to Aadhaar subverts the very idea of justice India’s Unique Identity, Aadhaar, once touted as the cure-all for the woes plaguing the distribution of welfare benefits and government subsidies, today stands on the verge of becoming […]
National affairs
India needs leadership that listens to people, not followership: Raghuram Rajan
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says there is no better alternative to democracy, but what is needed is persuasive leaders to take people in the right path. Excerpts from his interview with Sagarika Ghosh of The Times of India . Sagarika Ghosh: The government has just celebrated the first anniversary of demonetisation. Do you believe there is a cause […]
Media has chosen to polarise society as nationalist versus anti-national, says Rajdeep Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai, consulting editor of the India Today Group, delivered the Dileep Padgaonkar Memorial Lecture at the Symbiosis Vishwabhavan Auditorium in Pune on Monday. The lecture was organised by the Pune International Centre and Symbiosis International University. Speaking on the theme “Responsibilities of the Conventional Media in the Age of Proliferating Social Media”, Sardesai paid […]
Desperate Modi stoops to new low, twists facts, launches personal attacks
With the Congress putting up a good fight in Gujarat and Rahul Gandhi attracting eyeballs, the Prime Minister finds himself cornered as Assembly elections draw closer Does it behove a Prime Minister to stoop to the level of a street speaker and call his rival names? Certainly not. But Narendra Modi is a class apart […]
A Pied Piper leading us to the brink?
A year after demonetisation, even the Modi and BJP faithful wonder if it was all a mistake In Japan barely 48 hours after his dramatic announcement of Demonetisation , Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked smug and pleased with himself. Addressing a meeting of the Indian diaspora in Tokyo, he said in Hindi that they must […]
This model is increasingly having an influence
News reports of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) activities abound in most countries across the globe yet there is little consensus in the literature as to the effectiveness of the IMF’s work. The purpose of this study is to provide a systematic review of the IMF literature that identifies the effects of IMF bailouts from […]
Adityanath and Democracy: Some Thoughts
By @jay_ambadi Yogi Adityanath is the 21st Chief Minister of India’s most populous state (both in terms of voters and members of the Parliament), Uttar Pradesh. Having won 312 seats out of a total of 403 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party was in a position to elect anyone as the next chief minister of UP. […]
Secularism the most misused word?
Celine Mary 06-08 -2016 The Emergency is often remembered as the dark age of our democracy, riddled with uncertainty and paranoia. Individual voices were gagged by posters saying “‘Batein kum, kam ziyadah’ (Speak less, work more) and newspapers were published with blank pages because the content was censored. Sounds scary, doesn’t it? But in […]