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Journalism of Courage

Arun Shourie

[caption id="attachment_2047118" align="alignnone" width="200"] Arun Shourie[/caption] The writer, a former Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP, was Union minister for communications, information technology and disinvestment.

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Information Society: Go beyond declarationsSubscriber Only

December 15,2003 00:00:00 AM

Mr President, distinguished participants, As a result of detailed and intensive exchanges, valuable declarations ha...

Mon, Dec 15, 2003

Who’ll take the call?Subscriber Only

October 18,2003 00:00:00 AM

Lessons for licensing systems are just as clear: • Minimise licenses.• Where you just must have them, let the licences not be &#14...

Sat, Oct 18, 2003

Eyes Wired ShutSubscriber Only

October 17,2003 00:00:00 AM

Decades ago, Arthur Clarke formulated two axioms about the advance of technology. One, whatever is thought possible — and much of what ...

Fri, Oct 17, 2003

Licensed to crawlSubscriber Only

October 16,2003 00:00:00 AM

The mal-effects are made all the more certain by the fact that bunches of licences have, necessarily, been given over time — one appurt...

Thu, Oct 16, 2003

Dial ReformSubscriber Only

October 15,2003 00:00:00 AM

At a seminar in Delhi recently, the Chief Technical Officer of Motorola — she is an Indian, Padmasree Warrior, a graduate of the Delhi ...

Wed, Oct 15, 2003

This <i>is</i> India’s moment but it’s <i>only</i> a moment, can we grasp it?Subscriber Only

August 17,2003 00:00:00 AM

On the one hand, we have unbounded opportunities and incomparable advantages to seize them. On the other, there is the fate that will surely...

Sun, Aug 17, 2003

When sky is the limitSubscriber Only

August 16,2003 00:00:00 AM

The problems that have bedevilled Japanese banks are well known — the quicksand of ‘‘directed lending’’, NPAs, and ...

Sat, Aug 16, 2003

Before the whining drowns it out, listen to the new IndiaSubscriber Only

August 15,2003 00:00:00 AM

Twenty to twenty-five years ago, even 10 years ago, few of us had heard of Information Technology. Today, exports from this industry are wor...

Fri, Aug 15, 2003

Remembering DhirubhaiSubscriber Only

July 08,2003 00:00:00 AM

All of us are here today to hear the President. So, I will be very brief. And to be briefer still, I will read what I typed on the plane las...

Tue, Jul 08, 2003

Account-Ability, West Bengal styleSubscriber Only

August 21,2002 00:00:00 AM

The most predictable case is that of West Bengal, in that, reality leaves no alternative to doing the right thing, but also in that, because...

Wed, Aug 21, 2002

Congress dials D For Disinvestment in its states, D for Disaster in DelhiSubscriber Only

August 20,2002 00:00:00 AM

Click on to the website www.pbdisinvest.nic.in. What do you find? It is the site of a ‘‘Directorate of Disinvestment.’’ ...

Tue, Aug 20, 2002

Inside, outside: Reforms derailed, image defacedSubscriber Only

May 08,2002 00:00:00 AM

Reputation is all. Even by itself it is enough to lead the investor to look elsewhere. We delude ourselves believing that investors will com...

Wed, May 08, 2002

Rising sun, setting economy: some lessons from the Far East for IndiaSubscriber Only

May 07,2002 00:00:00 AM

Japan is the second largest economy in the world. Till the other day it was the byword for ‘‘miracle’’. Today it is in i...

Tue, May 07, 2002

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