18 October, 2023 We must be wary not only of Pakistan, China, and Canada but of all foreign sources. But terrorism charges sound clumsy Recent events in India have highlighted the possibilities of Chinese infiltration in the country’s media. This opens the need for a larger discussion. Let us consider the United States, the bastion of free market capitalism. There are […]
05-Oct-2023 It’s time to pay tribute to former diplomats Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and Narendra Sarila by maintaining an Arjuna-like focus on defending and embellishing our national agency. In post-independence India, former diplomats Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and Narendra Sarila emerged as eminent and important historians. The chronicling of the 20th-century India would be poorer in the absence of […]
20-Sep-2023 There is a real danger that India will lose another 70 years if we get a government that is captive to woke, socialist, anti-capitalist fiscally imprudent ideologies. There is a dangerous illusion floating around among many, although fortunately not all, of my English-speaking friends that a Congress-led Opposition would not deviate from market-oriented economic […]
06-Sep-2023 This writer would like to make the case that the fact that our Constitution has an element of being a colonial legacy is not all that bad. Debates about our Constitution have become quite interesting in recent days. Bibek Debroy has suggested it is a colonial legacy. Since we are enthusiastic about jettisoning our […]
21-Aug-2023 In Caste as Social Capital: The Complex Place of Caste in Indian Society, Professor R. Vaidyanathan’s intellectual debate acquires a new sharp edge. If there is one thing that defines our country and at the same time differentiates us from others, it is the institution of caste. We call it varna, jati and other […]
Jul 31, 2023 Has Hindu nationalism emerged as a cohesive political doctrine in India, what does the latest judicial reform in Israel mean in the Judiciary Vs Executive fight & why India can never be like European Union — Watch Israeli-American philosopher & author Yoram Hazony in conversation with columnist & author Jaithirth Rao.
18 July, 2023 Equity is a quaint idea embedded in Common Law, which demands the sovereign ensure that tricky situations are not dealt with only according to the letter of the law. When it comes to the Article 370 suit, the petitioners are bound to argue that the court will only consider issues of constitutional […]
05 July, 2023 PM Modi’s visit to Heliopolis is in keeping with his outreach to Muslims, including Bohras and Ahmadiyya’s. Nobel Laureate Obama, leave India alone. Having visited the Haifa Indian Cemetery in Israel in 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now paid respects at the Heliopolis (Port Tewfik) Memorial in Egypt where the war cemetery commemorates Indian soldiers who died […]
27 June, 2023 It is precisely good macro numbers and foreign praise that I submit is a cause for worry. They were not vote-winners in 2004. They may not be now. When you get to age seventy-one; when you have been regularly paying income tax for fifty years; when you remember Darjeeling before its great […]
06 December, 2017 Constantly making changes to policies like GST shows that a government is responsive and open to course-correction, despite what critics say. Various experts in the pundit-republic of India have told us with supreme élan and wit that the frequent flip-flops with respect to our newest tax, the Goods and Services Tax (GST), […]