September 26, 2021 Books written for students of economics and management make no references to Mahatma Gandhi. The losers are the students. Gandhi, with his encyclopedic range of interests, has much to say that can be treated as complementary to mainstream economics and management theories, or as even an intrinsic part of them. His contributions, […]
September 25, 2021, Churchill is supposed to have referred to Gandhi as a half-naked fakir. The irony is that many Indians have internalized this view. Gandhi is seen as a poverty-loving, spiritual figure out of touch with the so-called hard-headed world and some see him as a supporter of woolly backward ideas. It is time […]
July 16, 2021 The purpose of this article is not to go into the tragic circumstances around the recent death of Father Stan Swamy. While many columns have been written about the tribal rights activist, including one by retired IPS officer Julio Ribeiro in ThePrint, I believe an attempt should be made to look at the […]
Sep 30, 2020 MUMBAI: The US based private equity major Warbug Pincus will acquire about 30% stake in Home First Finance Company (HFFC), the Mumbai-based affordable housing finance company. Warburg will invest about Rs.800 crore in HFFC, said two people aware of the development. In this secondary round, existing investors True North Capital, and Bessemer Ventures will sell part of their stake […]
Indian political and intellectual discourse has been largely dominated and distorted by the leftist, Marxist, post-modern & Freudian ideas for decades. The conservative voice has been largely absent.
August 16, 2020 his is an extract from a piece of mine that appeared in The Indian Express on 25 November 2011: “When the Olympics were held in this country’s capital city, great care was taken to put on a show to impress foreign visitors. Dissidents were picked up and taken away from the city. Unwanted and […]
June 16, 2020 Police brutality and institutionalized racism are tragic problems that beset American society. At least, in the US, there is open discussion on the subject. Something that does not happen in China’s Xinjiang province, which used to be called East Turkestan in the not so distant past. The American problems, I am convinced, […]