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A bold step was needed, the Budget missed it
The Union budget for 2023-24 came against a backdrop of economic recovery and optimism in the...
Union Budget balances growth and fiscal...
This is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget, and the last full plan be-fore the...
Economy can’t be good when governance is bad
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards...
Dark clouds as we head into Budget 2024
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term,...
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Politics
What is wrong with the Gujarat model of...
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month...
Best to leave bollywood alone
Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, two of Hindi filmdom’s biggest stars, have come out to make...
The bulldozing of India
The stinging remarks by Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court in a case of the bulldozing...
Celebrating India’s Constitution
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality...
Economy
A bold step was needed, the Budget missed it
The Union budget for 2023-24 came against a backdrop of economic recovery and optimism in the...
Union Budget balances growth and fiscal...
This is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget, and the last full plan be-fore the...
Economy can’t be good when governance is bad
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards...
Dark clouds as we head into Budget 2024
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term,...
Health
Chiranjeevi Yojana: Doctors against Right to...
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into...
The long road to right to health
September 23 in many senses is a landmark day in the context of India’s long and winding road to...
Two WHO tales on Indian health systems
India’s ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) as well as the Indian media appear to be...
Why the COVID-19 numbers matter
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of deaths in India directly or...
Recent Columns
Deglamourising the “master spies”
As a writer on intelligence for the last 27 years, my objective has been to demystify and...
The delay in conducting a census and its...
India has had a tradition of conducting a national census, every ten years, for more than a century...
G-20 Presidency: Hope on a difficult road
India has taken over leadership of the G-20 and has said it wants to lead with a presidency of “...
Watching Covid-19 as we welcome 2023
We are into the New Year but the pandemic, it appears, will follow us into 2023. If the world...
Select Diaries
Painted hymns, church frescoes and religious...
A valuable treasure trove of art work, murals, frescoes and paintings lie in a 16th century...
Witness Mumbai’s old glory here
It was a pleasant surprise this morning to see the space under the flyover used so imaginatively. I...
Vikram Lall : An uncompromising aesthete
Vikram Lall made his life and livelihood as an architect, the Buddha Smriti Park in his hometown...
‘Quality and cost must be under government...
CMC is a national resource. All of India’s neurosurgeons were grandchildren, great-grandchildren,...
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