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Remember how it was, the heady euphoria that finally we were on our way to a great global power we deserve to be? That was 2014, when all the talk in the air was of major economic reforms, about how India would enter high double digit GDP growth trajectory and be an all conquering force. Read more

Remember how agitated the public was when onion was ₹ 100 a kilo? How exactly a decade later, Mr Modi came along and promised to take care of the ‘price fixing’ that he alleged took place for commodities, and how India has had mixed views about trading in commodities because of an understanding that trading Read more

It was savage, as the bloodhounds are meant to be, tearing at the innards of a fawn that had entered the enclosure in the lure of juicy evergreen foliage. It was clinically executed and it was meant to rev up the select audience for whom it was intended, to ensure their continued commitment to an Read more

Mr Modi has been now for more than a decade plus as an international observation. Books on him have been about his personality, his near cult status as an icon for his followers. If he was polarising, five years of premiership has reduced the opposite view to a fringe, either way, due to his managing Read more

We are staring at a new startling game of political brinkmanship, to deliver votes to their camp, with first the government thinking of making a direct benefit transfer poll eve to most of the PDS card holding officially poor, like how TN government did for Pongal which was cleared by judicial challenge. What Mr Rahul Read more

Look at the CBI saga, and it is just a candle to what ails India, and why it will keep failing India’s strategic wherewithal. We have a widow seeking investigation into her husband’s cold blooded murder at the Supreme Court, and their Lordships have read a riot act to the agencies involved, and what option Read more