The day after the Indian government banned the BBC documentary India’s Daughter, on the horrific gang rape and killing of a student in Delhi, a 10,000-strong mob broke into a jail in a town in Assam, dragged out an alleged rapist, beat…
The first round of the auction of mining rights in 18 coal blocks to user firms in the private sector in the power, steel and cement industries has been completed. If the figures being circulated of the revenues or benefits…
India, we are constantly reminded, is one of the more rapidly growing economies of the world at present; and even though the growth rate has come down somewhat of late, official figures show that it still remains quite high. What…
Saturday 7 February was voting day in the capital city of Delhi. So it was effectively a holiday for many workers, who only had to walk to their polling stations to cast their votes for the Assembly elections. This meant…
The Planning Commission, set up under Jawaharlal Nehru’s Prime Ministership, was a logical expression of an idea that underlay India’s anti-colonial struggle, namely that in independent India, an improvement in the material conditions of life of the people, subjugated and…
Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati has written an invited article on the front page of Economic Times on January 9. He has made a strong case for Narendra Modi’s Make in India (and sell abroad) campaign and has urged the Prime Minister…
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Dr. Raghuram Rajan, while inaugurating the annual conference of the Indian Economic Association at Udaipur on the 27th of December, questioned the wisdom of the debt-waiver scheme for agriculturists, which the UPA…
The website is impressive, no doubt about it. It is sleekly designed and easy on the eye, and it appears to offer a lot of information on what is supposed to be the Modi government’s ambitious new initiative to transform…
Credit Suisse brings out a Global Wealth Report every year. The current year’s report takes up for specific discussion the issue of wealth inequality. The term “wealth” in the report covers only household wealth and refers to the value of…
The BJP under Narendra Modi has been by and large favoured by fortune. This is reflected not just in the fact that it managed to win 52 per cent (282) of the seats with just 31 per cent of the…
