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Jaithirth Rao
When the paper asked me to write about Indira Gandhi, what started as a piece of political analysis, ended up becoming a personal journey.
The fact is that we have too many news channels in our country. And since these childish enterprises have very little to do, they keep running the same news items again and again irrespective of whether the news is real, exaggerated or even manufactured.
The criticisms levelled against our Prime Minister may or may not be valid depending on your political perspective. One thing is for sure, none of it has been constructive.
If you take people and passion out of policymaking, results will be terrible whether in economics or war. That’s the lesson for all MBA-type technocrats from Robert McNamara’s career
Although the Roosevelt administration supported India’s freedom movement, subsequent regimes until the arrival of George W Bush had problems with India. Bush approached India with an unusual maverick perspective.
We must be eternally guarded against the temptation that the current rich and their political cronies may have to suppress the emergence of others into the portals of wealth. Free entry and fair access to markets for resources (including capital) are the foundations of successful and morally...