Month: February 2017

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From the Editor

From the Editor

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people’s gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept, said Thomas Friedman, an...

Eyes wide shut

Recognise the small entrepreneur

IT is widely believed, and not without substance, that the recent large scale replacement of currency has caused avoidable distress to the small...

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Cover Story

Cover Story : Coming to terms with Trump

WHEN Barack Obama became President in 2009, one of the most important decisions in his first 100 days was probably the passage of...

Cover Story

Cover Story : Trump alters world view

G“eography does not argue. It simply is.” -Dutch-American geopolitical thinker Nicholas Spykman NOTHING happens overnight. Major global events are merely culmination of long-drawn-out...

Governance

Governance : BUDGET 2017-18 No carrots, only sticks

IN the two days since the commencement of the Budget Session of Parliament on January 31, 2017, three important events followed in quick...

Governance

Governance : Civil Services Booting out the incompetent?

IN mid-January 2017, Chhattisgarh State Home department, complying with the order of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) dated January 5, gave compulsory retirement...

State Scan

Jallikattu: It is for the bull not against it

A lot has been written and debated about Jallikattu over the past month. Demonstrations in Tamil Nadu in favour of the sport attracted...

State Scan

Humble farmer’s rich friends

JP (Jai Pakash or Jaypee) Associates managing director Sunny Gaur, infrastructure doyen Dilip Suryavanshi, mining Baron Sanjay Pathak and coal trader brothers Satish...

Book Review

Book Review : A miserable failure

IT’S ironical that a book that aims to create a myth and living legend of an individual itself has seedlings, even large plants,...

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Upholder of uprightness

WITHIN three months from March to May in 2008, three IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers took voluntary retirement from service (VRS) in Uttar...