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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
J&K smokescreen won’t hide economic spasms
It is indeed a point of debate whether the post-Budget policy tweaks of Ms Sitharaman would prove effective or not.
12 Oct 2019 12:00 AM
Small gains for Modi, Trump from Houston
It turns out that Houston has ended up being a show of small or no gains, small thrills that could linger longer, and uncertain risks.
25 Sep 2019 1:04 AM
Does BJP desire to rule India like China’s Reds?
It is Shah’s democratic right to cast doubts about the efficacy of the multi-party democratic system in India.
20 Sep 2019 1:36 AM
Hurdles for Modi 2.0: Economy, J&K, NRC
Then there is the mess created by the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
11 Sep 2019 2:38 AM
Signs of pragmatism in steps to boost economy
The Modi government’s eagerness to increase tax collections could have made sense if the economy was doing well.
26 Aug 2019 12:00 AM
At home in court, Parliament, and the social circuit
Like a good lawyer with a sharp eye, he could grasp the treacherous nuances of the social and political landscape.
25 Aug 2019 12:07 AM
India-Pak wrangling on N-weapons dangerous
It is true that the Indian missile — air, land and water — programme has the aim of nuclear-tipped weaponry. But it is not the sole strategy.
20 Aug 2019 8:12 AM
PM tries to inspire, but skirts the real anxieties
Modi conveyed his greetings to Afghanistan, that will be celebrating its Independence Day a few days later, and skipped any reference to Pakistan.
16 Aug 2019 12:29 AM
Can Delhi deliver vikas to post-370 Kashmir?
The rightness or wrongness of the decision will now depend on what it can accomplish in terms of making Kashmir a normal place.
12 Aug 2019 3:00 AM
A true-grit achiever, she was capable of more
The party took full advantage, and rightly so, of her ability to speak loudly and clearly, with force and conviction.
08 Aug 2019 12:05 AM
Unnao: It’s time to act, outrage is not enough
So when help is denied to a hapless citizen at all levels, it could not but end in tragedy of enormous proportion.
03 Aug 2019 1:16 AM
No early end in sight to Karnataka turbulence
It is a moot question whether it would have survived if the coalition partners had done well in the parliamentary elections.
25 Jul 2019 12:00 AM
Can Speaker dictate terms of resignation?
The Congress as a party would not want to be blackmailing the government.
17 Jul 2019 2:45 AM
No talk of jobs will not make the issue go away
Shah had talked of self-employment as a way of dealing with the jobs problem, making it evident that the government is not promising jobs.
09 Jul 2019 12:17 AM
Nirmala’s Budget fullof political flourishes
The Budget speech was a political declamation, but there were strong signs of the government’s desperate bid to “kickstart” the economy.
06 Jul 2019 12:00 AM
Checks and balances: Hubris for Modi, BJP
Modi is not the first person to express his irritation with the political numbers in the Rajya Sabha.
02 Jul 2019 3:03 AM
Prosaic agenda: Where is the Modi 2.0 vision?
There is the predictable and justifiable note of boastfulness after the unmistakable and assertive election victory of May 23.
22 Jun 2019 7:28 AM
Modi takes a hard look at economy’s potholes
There are problems, of course, some of them unstated, some overstated.
18 Jun 2019 3:30 AM
For Modi, Jaishankar is like Nixon’s Kissinger
There was the sincere intent to strengthen the Saarc.
11 Jun 2019 1:33 AM
Modi’s huge mandate to be a heavy burden
The second Modi government is on its own, and it will be expected not to commit the blunders of its first term.
03 Jun 2019 1:07 AM
Columns
After Chhatrapati Shivaji, Savarkar occupies the highest position on the list of Maharashtra’s icons.
Turkish forces have moved into northern Syria, and the shaky Kurdish-defended buffer zone has become the site of mayhem.
The Thunberg pater familias was correct in identifying such words as potentially problematic.
Banerjee and Duflo teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kramer is at Harvard University.