A commitment to this sharp pro-poor ideological positioning is critical to the revival of the Congress. Rahul Gandhi has done well to articulate this in his campaign
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By Lekha Rattanani |
There is little doubt in the minds of many today that this election is turning. It will not be the cakewalk that the BJP imagined it would be for the party.
By Arun Maira |
The Supreme Court is raising fundamental questions about the rule of law in a democracy.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The noise and confusion being created over an inheritance tax in India is an attempt by the BJP to recover ground in an election that was believed to be in the bag…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is never easy or safe to read the mood of the nation, particularly in the midst of a national election that is well spread out, this one running over 40 days and…
By Ajit Ranade |
For the first time in thirty-three years, a foreign nation State attacked Israel on Saturday April 13.
By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It was an easy bet that the MPC of RBI would keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50 per cent – seventh pause in a row – in its first bi-monthly meeting for 2024-…
By Haresh Jagtiani |
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), widely believed to be the hand maiden of the BJP has arrested Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his excise liquor policy…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
“When the world sleeps,” Jawaharlal Nehru said, “India will awake to light and freedom”. More than 75 years from that momentous occasion on Aug.
By Ajit Ranade |
A factory using a water intensive chemical process in Gujarat had a problem. It was the onset of summer. The assured industrial supply of water was not forthcoming.…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In India, one picture is the Ambani razzmatazz at a reported bill of about Rs.1,000 crore; another is almost 60% of India living on free food grains from the sarkar