21 April, 2023 Hundreds of thousands of MSMEs across the country are suddenly going to see their payments coming in faster and at least before 31 March. Nirmala in Sanskrit means “clear”, “limpid”, “crystalline”. Vedanta Desika refers to a “Nirmala Spatika” — a “pure crystal”. There is clearly a hint of purity. Given the performance […]
03 May, 2023 How can it be that if Indian State invokes a common law principle so clearly enunciated in the US, it suddenly becomes a fascist enemy of decent NGOs? There has been quite a bit of noise about the current dispensation being against what is referred to as “civil society”. One expects this kind of diatribe […]
12 June, 2023 My one quarrel with Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan is that it emphasises on the war-mongering elements of Chola history not on their aesthetic, administrative achievements. The Irish political theorist Benedict Anderson postulated that nations are “imagined” communities. It is important to note that even the kingdoms and empires of antiquity are “imagined” entities. Arguably, […]
Sep 30, 2021 In this edition of ThePrintOTC, entrepreneur and writer Jaithirth Rao speaks to Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and commentator Gurcharan Das about Rao’s new book, ‘Economist Gandhi’. Rao explains what drew him to writing about Gandhi, why the economic aspects of Gandhian thought are often overlooked, and the relevance of these ideas in relation […]
07 April, 2022 American ‘experts’ have an anti-India bias that started with Bush’s tilt towards Delhi. With Trump, it was the perfect storm for US Left to react. Recently, there has been commentary about the so-called ‘Hindu Right’ turning anti-American, jettisoning years of its stance of being anti-communist and pro-American. That is an intriguing point […]
18 March, 2022 I believe in the current dispensation. But in the interests of our republic, it is important that we have a reasonably strong pan-Indian opposition party. If for no other reason than the fact that a functioning democracy needs a strong opposition, many of us are disappointed with the steady decline of the […]
This discussion with Jerry Rao can be tagged as an intellectual, economist and philosophical. Probably these words also do not do complete justice to the depth and extent of the discussion.
Feb 26, 2022 The passing of the incomparable Lata Mangeshkar gives us a chance to pause and pat ourselves on our backs. Our country, our culture, our civilization, if you will, have gifted to the world an extraordinary art form available virtually nowhere else. It may have been a new technology, but its father in India, […]
Jerry Rao In Conversation With Dipesh Chakrabarty And Avik Chanda