The only thing that is certain is that everything about coronavirus is uncertain and unpredictable. It has overwhelmed many governments.
No party can escape blame. Some tried hard despite obstacles, some faltered, and some buried the facts and relied on…
The comforting truth is that there are stable governments in the four states with the winning side having got an…
I shall not be surprised if hospital administrators are besieged by angry protesters in much the same way it is…
The quality of governance has sunk to an abysmal low. The result is what we see around us — deprivation,…
The Election Commission (EC) was fiercely independent: for instance, it acknowledged the logic of allotting a common symbol to all…
They trust the institutions that they have installed to tackle these challenges including Parliament/Legislature, the judiciary, the free media, the…
Polling will be completed in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the U.T. of Puducherry two days from today and part-completed…
Delhi is the National Capital of India. It is acknowledged that the government of Delhi has to be different from…
There are many examples at the state level. The DMK was founded on regional pride, love of Tamil, self-respect, anti-superstition…
Given that the bottom 20 per cent of any developing country must be assumed to be poor, that leaves 7…
Amidst a shallow and short-lived recovery and private investment missing, any celebration is totally premature. We must await the estimates…
Never before in the history of independent India have the powers of the State been mobilised so ruthlessly to suppress…
When the Budget for 2020-21 was presented on February 1, 2020, I had questioned the credibility of the three key…
A dissenting mind belongs to a thinking person. Great judges have been great dissenters: Justice Frankfurter, Justice Subba Rao, Justice…
The most deserving were left to their fate. Since I had no expectations, I have no disappointment, but millions of…
All but one ally have left the NDA; the crypto-allies (YSRCP, TRS, BJD, BSP) have distanced themselves on contentious issues;…
All this is bad news for Mr Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and among the richest…
