Opinion - Page 1297

Recently there was a ‘Festival of Madurai Cuisine’ at a swanky hotel here in Chennai, and as a Madurai person myself my first reaction was one of...

Why make so much fuss about India’s poor and the government’s so-called poverty alleviation programmes? Under the Planning Commission definition, even...

Raghuram Rajan, taking over as Governor of RBI on 4 September, has sought to ring a note of cheer for an economy in distress, committing himself to...

When it comes to Private Equity (PE), there can be numerous schools of thought. You have the group that would completely go gaga over PE. You have...

The Union Minister  of Petroleum and Natural Gas Veerappa Moily has set the fox among the chicken-coop by proposing a slew of ‘austerity measures’ as...

Will the Congress Party’s strategy to woo the electorate with populist welfare schemes work in the 2014 elections? Will there be a UPA-III? It is...

Delhi finance and power secretary Shakti Sinha, a 1979 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre, has had an exciting three-decade career. He served on the...

Okay, you are smarter than I am so you tell me.Why do the Indian police always hold hands with the suspects after arresting them? You often get this...

Governments, traditional media, ISP’s have been grappling with the challenges of regulating content. In the middle of Assam crisis last month, the...

The Mumbai mayhem at Taj is long over; a few blasts that shook the country are also phasing out to down the memory lane; we still feel unsecured and...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) eagerness for an early general election is born of the fear that the Congress may have found a brahmastra (ultimate...

The assassination of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune is an ugly black mark on Indian society. The forces of fanatical...