This year marks three decades of market-friendly economic reforms introduced in 1991 by the P.V. Narasimha Rao administration. Manmohan Singh was considered the mastermind behind breaking the shackles...

Walking on the roads the other day, I found myself thinking how nothing much seems to have changed from before the pandemic. Now that things have opened up again, Calcutta traffic has reverted to bein...

The road ahead is even more daunting than during the 1991 economic crisis and the nation would need to recalibrate its priorities to ensure a dignified life for all Indians, said former prime minister...

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the 1991 reforms in India. There is intense commemoration of what is considered to have been a paradigm shift in Indian economic policies. Thirty years are rar...

India’s military assistance to Afghanistan till the delivery of those gunships was restricted to supply of vehicles made by the Mahindras and training about 50 officer cadets each year in defenc...

Some years ago, amidst my struggles as a freelancer, I had an argument with a senior journalist who insisted that the only sustainable pattern of work was employment with media organizations. “S...

Antony recalled that Modi had unilaterally announced the purchase of 36 Rafale aircraft without going through any tender process in complete derogation of the “Defence Procurement Procedure&rdqu...

I can do no better than quote I.G. Patel, the famous economist of his time, about the situation which India faced in 1991. In a talk he had delivered in Bangalore sometime in 1991, he had referred to ...

China’s Xi Jinping yearns to be loved. Anxiety neurosis, like narcissism, is inherent in the psychology of all absolute rulers. Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot probably also c...

A Hindi paper recently printed snaps of Tejashwi Yadav, Kanhaiya Kumar and Chirag Paswan regarding their absence from Covid relief work. The image renewed attacks on Kumar for being a “celebrity...