The Supreme Court bench was aware of the political minefield it was treading. Hence, the unanimity as well as the…

All complications of mature political democracies come together in Brexit, crippling the political system’s ability to make a decision with…

It has been obvious for some time that there is a serious dearth of talent in political personnel below the…

In mature phases, the state is also part of the economy. It is also a borrower, and an investor. This…

Historically, Indians have never looked Eastwards. They do not think they are Asians. Sir William Jones discovered in the late…

The govt must nudge small farmers towards better-paying, non-farm jobs, and junk the thinking that prized state-ownership

In the short run, the government must re-examine whether its revenue projections for GST make sense given the many effective…

Let us look at the numbers at stake. In any such statistical exercise, it is routine to say plus, minus…

Economic data are subject to large measurement errors. So, 5% is really somewhere between 4% and 6%. Those who fancy…

After 1989, when the Taliban and related Islamist terror organisations poured in from across the border, J&K was ethnically cleansed…

Concurring with the view that the economic slowdown was cyclical, the recent Reserve Bank of India analysis called the three-quarter…

Bhagwat wishes all reservations would wither away and Hindus could be a single people.

The ideological core of the BJP cares nothing about economics. It wants to build a Hindu Rashtra and along that…

The Modi-Shah team obtained a two-thirds majority in the Rajya Sabha and a better than 5:1 majority in the Lok…

The real danger of Brexit is uncertainty. Is Boris Johnson bluffing just to make the EU give him a better…

With the mandate Modi has received, he must deliver on his promise of cutting govt presence in business. Air India,…

Budget 2019-20: Indian politicians and economic commentators put too much faith in the idea that the government is the sole…