Saturday, Jul 20, 2019 | Last Update : 12:41 PM IST
Sanjeev Ahluwalia
J&K bonds with India may deepen over time
Kashmir has this instant ability to exclude everything except the known and the immediate.
20 Jul 2019 12:00 AM
For economic progress, learn from the Chinese
Deep social change is at the heart of economic progress.
16 Jul 2019 12:55 AM
Budget data snafu: No answers in sight
The Budget over-estimated the 2018-19 revenue receipts by 9.6 per cent.
10 Jul 2019 2:19 AM
Sitharaman hits all the buttons, sticks to basics
Despite a long speech there were no magic bullets presented to kickstart a virtuous cycle of investment, growth and jobs.
06 Jul 2019 1:07 AM
Marching to a new drumbeat: What to expect from Budget
Budget FY2020 should break this dismal trend and increase capital expenditure to 2 per cent of projected GDP.
30 Jun 2019 7:02 AM
Modi 2.0 offers a giant political supermarket!
Export orientation is a quality and time conscious eco-system which hinges on becoming part of global supply chains.
19 Jun 2019 1:25 AM
Bring back credibility to the Union Budget
Sustainable magic requires that the magician remain credible.
12 Jun 2019 1:03 AM
Modi 2.0: Governance to need a frugal touch
The government must redeem its earlier commitment to reduce the FD to 2.5 per cent of GDP over five years.
07 Jun 2019 12:06 AM
Modi 2.0: Different economic strokes?
The 2014 Budget was expectedly a laundry list of good intentions.
28 May 2019 2:01 AM
Modi 2.0: Reaching out to all
The NDA should clock up around 344 seats — Shiv Sena with 18, Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) with 16 and Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP with six.
24 May 2019 7:36 AM
NDA and the winner’s curse: Tough times ahead
The happy news must have reached — like Maneka (of Vishwamitra fame) — to interrupt a meditating Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Kedarnath cave.
21 May 2019 7:14 AM
Bitter morning-after pill for new govt post elections
Severe inequality in the allocation of public finance is a primary reason for rural impoverishment.
19 May 2019 5:41 AM
EC undermined due to weak institutions
The EC is a child of political happenstance and jugaad, not thoughtful institutional strategy.
14 May 2019 12:05 AM
A strange duality casts a shadow over election
The Annual Survey of Education Report 2018 records that one-third of those schooled till Class 8 cannot even read a Class 2 text.
07 May 2019 1:47 AM
Pragya Thakur symbol of New (Hindu) India?
It is the capital of Madhya Pradesh and she has been pitted against Digvijay Singh, a former chief minister of the state and a senior Congress leader.
24 Apr 2019 1:18 AM
Some votes are more equal than others
Governments game the system to keep potentially unfriendly voters out. Citizens in remote locations might be overlooked and so on.
17 Apr 2019 1:13 AM
Sankalp Patra: How real are the BJP’s promises?
We are far from junking top down, paternalistic, big man rule. Regional political leaders are no different in their preferred style of governance.
10 Apr 2019 1:25 AM
Will India vote with its heart, or with its head?
Both schemes perpetuate the UPA’s pessimistic assumption that the State’s capacity cannot be revitalised for effective public service delivery.
02 Apr 2019 12:35 AM
Boldly questioning the climate status quo
The Arctic, Russia, the Nordic countries and Canada would be temperate, safe havens, which survivors would fight to access.
31 Mar 2019 4:38 AM
Voternama: Churn is the new 2019 mantra
Voters are moving away from the national parties to regional parties even for the Lok Sabha elections.
21 Mar 2019 1:50 AM
Columns
Kashmir has this instant ability to exclude everything except the known and the immediate.
One could watch either the ICC Cricket World Cup final or the Gentlemen’s Singles Final at Wimbledon.
New Delhi’s greatest concern traditionally has been the transfer of military systems and technology to Islamabad.
Defending the people and fighting for their rights at the ground level became less and less important.