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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

The Niti Aayog booklet explains that the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is to be financed through the National Monetisation Pipeline. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt can’t leave it to pvt sector to spend on infra

The private sector in India is not too keen to get into infrastructure projects

01 Sep 2021 1:50 AM

The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no “good Taliban” or “bad Taliban”, and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s real problem on Taliban is its Pak links

India’s first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

24 Aug 2021 4:19 AM

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman would perhaps explain that the Modi government did not move the amendment to the retrospective tax amendment as it wanted it to be proved how wrong the Mukherjee move was in terms of legality. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Retro tax scrapping will not lead to spurt in FDI

Everyone felt that it was curtains at last for what is considered Pranab Mukherjee’s policy folly as finance minister in 2012

10 Aug 2021 2:18 AM

Karnataka strongman and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP’s K’taka mess lingers: BSY won’t go away quietly

Karnataka strongman and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa stepped down on Monday evening as the state’s chief minister after much melodrama

28 Jul 2021 12:33 AM

Navjot Singh Sidhu. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sidhu is Cong wild card for Punjab’s 2022 polls

Apparently, neither Mr Gandhi nor the Congress high command really liked the idea of a state leader who was on his own

22 Jul 2021 12:10 AM

Newly appointed Uttarakhand Legislative party leader Pushkar Singh Dhami with party leaders, in Dehradun. Central observer D Purandeswari, Tirath Singh Rawat are also seen. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | U’khand trouble spells end of Modi’s free run

The Assembly elections in April-May have shown that there are limits to the Prime Minister’s charisma

05 Jul 2021 7:09 AM

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | In Covid crisis, SC forces Centre to share vital info

PM Modi and his government has claimed credit for its decision on procuring vaccines directly and then allocating them to the states

30 Jun 2021 12:20 AM

It’s a clear warning for former spies and spooks, and others who know a little too much about the secrets of the State, that they will lose their pension and other benefits if they were to spill the beans. (Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The business of gagging retired spooks isn’t easy

Citizens of a democratic state have a right to know whether the money they pay in taxes is used for diabolical acts like murder and mayhem

05 Jun 2021 1:01 AM

A medic administers a COVID-19 vaccine at Tej Bahadur Sapru Hospital in Prayagraj. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As pandemic rises, it’s crucial to get ‘numbers’ right

For long we have believed numbers are sure indicators, that they don’t deceive

25 May 2021 9:33 PM

What attracted attention, obviously, was his taking note of the upheaval caused by Mr Modi’s arrival in Delhi as Prime Minister, dealt with much panache in the first two chapters of the book under the attention-grabbing headings of “Bombard The Headquarters” and “Modi’s Metaphors”. — By Arrangement

Book Review | A clinical view of the exit of Delhi durbar, not an anti-Modi diatribe

Sanjay Baru’s book analyses the changing complexion of India’s diverse influence groups

09 May 2021 9:53 AM

In its May 5 verdict, the Supreme Court had spelled out various reasons for disallowing reservations for the Marathas. (DC file photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The case against quotas isn’t about meritocracy

The reservations issue poses a special dilemma for Shiv Sena and BJP, as both subscribe to conservative ideologies of different shades

07 May 2021 12:00 AM

Verdicts in TN, Kerala, Assam show political diversity rules

The masterminds behind the one nation, one party slogan should know they cannot hope to win across the entire country

03 May 2021 12:00 AM

Family members mourn near the body of the deceased after clashes erupted between locals and central forces during the fourth phase of West Bengal Assembly Election in Cooch Behar. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Bengal violence erupted as all leaders poisoned the air

What India is seeing is a generation of political leaders who are immature, who lack the poise of a leader of a national stature

15 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

Security personnel pay tribute to CRPF jawan Shambhu Roy, who died in a gun battle with Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, during his funeral ceremony at Dharmanagar in North Tripura district on April 6, 2021. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Need to rethink strategy to tackle Maoist menace

It is possible that some of the J&K separatists and the Naxalites are fanatical ideologues, but there are many others who are not

07 Apr 2021 7:16 AM

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hosabale’s rise: RSS-BJP ties still remain opaque

If the BJP survives in power, it may not need the RSS much longer

29 Mar 2021 4:19 AM

Indians who complain loudly and aggressively against the offensive behaviour of white people in the West fall into the same kind of behaviour at home when we deal with blacks and all non-white people – whether they are visitors or students. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let’s talk about racism… Fight it at home, abroad

Discrimination based on colour is a habit of the mind among people across the length and breadth of Indian society

18 Mar 2021 4:23 AM

The focus of the Assembly elections in four states and a Union territory has centred around West Bengal and the big question is whether the BJP under PM Modi will breach the final barrier, as it were, for the right-wing saffron party. (AP/Bikas Das)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi’s pan-Indian image won’t help BJP win polls

The right-wing party is learning the hard way that multitudinous India is a multipolar political field

10 Mar 2021 7:21 AM

Climate activist Disha Ravi, 22, being taken to a court in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Ravi was arrested for circulating a document on social media supporting months of massive protests by farmers in India. (AP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Arrests on flimsy basis undermine democracy

A citizen’s liberty cannot be left to the mercy of a policeman or policewoman

26 Feb 2021 12:00 AM

The honest way of going about this important issue dealing with the challenges of agriculture is to tell the truth that the government is unable to pay the rising MSP bill. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | PM’s arguments on farm laws seem deeply flawed

The government is now telling a lie -- that farmers will get a better deal outside the mandi, which is not the case over the long term

17 Feb 2021 7:18 AM

Ms Sitharaman has announced a huge capital expenditure outlay across sectors from health to infrastructure, and even to the financial sector, by setting up a Developmental Financial Institution with a capitalisation of Rs 20,000 crores. ((Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | State back in saddle; can pvt sector drive growth?

There is the feeling that the economy is at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, and the post-pandemic turnaround is around the corner

02 Feb 2021 7:14 AM

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