Month: November 2018

Governance

Create Pockets of Tourist Excellence

INDIA is a great destination from the tourism perspective. From Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Somnath to Nagaland, India has everything to offer...

Governance

Exercise in futility

On October 9, 2018, The Economic Times carried a front-page article under the headline ‘Pay Tax, Get Rewards from the Govt’. It shows...

Governance

Academic autocracy and authoritarianism?

Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics...

Expose

An intriguing deal

For decades, Indian governments, in league with private aviation players, destroyed the operational and financial foundations of the state-owned Air India. The public...

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By the Way

Time to party!

Of all PSU chiefs, Anoop Kumar Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director of NBCC, is said to be the most powerful. He is enjoying...

Bric a Brac

Jewel of India

Come January 26, and the nation’s eyes are on who is likely to be awarded the next Bharat Ratna. Ideally, it should be...

Bric a Brac

INLD no more

Haryana is one of the most politically volatile states, and intricate strategies are required to win the election battle in the state. Politicking...

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From the Editor

From the Editor

What are the choices before having a politician, who becomes the prime minister without have gone through the drill – of being a...

Silly Point

A tale of two handkerchiefs

Narendra Modi is a leader of the grandiloquent gesture. Prime Ministers of the past, when they won unprecedented victories in parliamentary polls, did...

CBI
Governance

CENTRAL BUREAU OF IRONY

IRONY was writ large when the government took the unprecedented midnight step of sending the CBI director and his Number 2 on leave...