Yashwant Sinha
The writer is a former Union external affairs and finance minister.
Fri, Jan 29, 2021
Yashwant Sinha writes: Some areas are in dire need of reform, but, perhaps, not in the manner the government has attempted to implement the three farm laws.
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
The nation is in peril on multiple fronts. The government is busy with non-issues with the sole intent of keeping the people in a trance with the heady wine of religious nationalism.
Mon, May 25, 2020
Keeping the macro perspectives in view, the new world should have unswerving commitment to egalitarianism, secularism and democratic principles.
Sat, Apr 11, 2020
India should and can come out of the present crisis with as little damage as possible if we tackle it together.
Tue, Mar 10, 2020
This government is barking up the wrong tree. First of all, it is solely responsible for the present slowdown. Second, it has no understanding of what has caused the problem. Third, therefore, it is flailing its arms in all directions except the right one and causing more pain.
Thu, Sep 12, 2019
It is easy for us to sit in judgement today after 73 years over the great men who fought for India’s independence and then ruled the country. Judgement based on hindsight is a dangerous game played by especially those who are in a hurry to use history selectively to prove their prejudiced view of it. Let us leave history to the historians.
Fri, Aug 09, 2019
Jammu and Kashmir: The government may have given up on dialogue in Kashmir. But people of Kashmir must know that there are still people in this country for whom it is an article of faith.
Sat, Jul 27, 2019
An all-party consensus has always guided our policy towards Pakistan barring a few differences with regard to nuances.
Wed, Dec 05, 2018
A Basic Income Scheme for the farmer will not tax the government’s resources. But it could stem the tide of distress in the countryside.
Mon, Sep 24, 2018
Facts do not back government's assertion about economic recovery
Fri, Aug 17, 2018
When I was preparing my very first Budget, I went to him for guidance and despite all the challenges on the economic front, Vajpayee told me that I must take care of the farmers.
Fri, Jul 20, 2018
Government needs to introduce three rates for GST and push for a single one in the long run
Tue, Apr 17, 2018
The government has now completed nearly four years in office, presented five budgets and used up all the opportunity available to it to show results.
Tue, Feb 20, 2018
An increasing revenue deficit and half-cooked schemes marked Budget 2018. There was no accounting for the two major programmes it announced.
Wed, Sep 27, 2017
Yashwant Sinha writes: The economy is on a downward spiral, is poised for a hard landing. Many in the BJP know it but do not say it out of fear
Thu, Sep 22, 2016
It hasn’t worked. India must craft an appropriate military response to Pakistan
Fri, Mar 01, 2013
This was the tenth and the last Budget of the UPA government.