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Shailaja Bajpai
Mar 5, 2015
Tele scope: Moving eastwardSubscriber Only
In television entertainment, it is goodbye Viranis, hello Shuklas and Mathurs.
Mar 5, 2015
View from the right: Mainstreaming J&KSubscriber Only
Though running this government will be a tightrope walk, especially for the PDP, if interests of the people of J&K are kept in mind.
Sanjay Nirupam
Mar 5, 2015
A policy of spectre-mongeringSubscriber Only
Sangh Parivar has zeroed in on Census 2011’s data on religion. But Modi government needs to go back to the Sachar report.
Putting the ‘universal’ in healthcareSubscriber Only
India needs prudent compromises to achieve its health coverage goals.
Harish Damodaran
Mar 5, 2015
Against the grainSubscriber Only
In a country like India, inflation targeting could create anti-farmer policy bias.
Neelkanth Mishra
Mar 5, 2015
States in chargeSubscriber Only
The changing electorate and competitive federalism will be checks on their profligacy.
Express News Service
Mar 4, 2015
View from the Left: Neoliberal pushSubscriber Only
Modi government moved to withdraw three crucial bills from the Rajya Sabha.
C. Raja Mohan
Mar 4, 2015
The great Game Folio: Kashmir gambitSubscriber Only
All of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh, have had to deal with this external dimension to Kashmir.
Balbir Punj
Mar 4, 2015
Taking chargeSubscriber Only
Prime minister’s success in securing the release of a priest from the Afghan Taliban points to India’s new clout.
Yoginder K Alagh
Mar 4, 2015
Many small bangsSubscriber Only
A reformist budget was tripped up by short-run pressures.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Mar 4, 2015
Two experimentsSubscriber Only
With the budget, BJP-PDP alliance, Modi may be charting a new course.
Dharmakirti Joshi
Mar 3, 2015
Unspectacular, but in the right directionSubscriber Only
For the budget to succeed, government needs to build institutional capacity to carry through proposed public investment, step up divestment.
Praveen Swami
Mar 3, 2015
Prime minister’s Pakistan projectSubscriber Only
Like his predecessors, Narendra Modi may yet discover that the road to peace has led to a minefield.
C. Raja Mohan
Mar 3, 2015
Opinion: Northwest turbulenceSubscriber Only
A new regional dynamic is shaping India’s relations with Pakistan and Afghanistan. Delhi needs a new strategy for this critical sub-region.
Abhijit Sen
Mar 3, 2015
Why I am a dissenterSubscriber Only
Finance Commission initiated shift to greater federalism. But let’s hasten slowly.
Sushant Singh
Mar 3, 2015
Have money, won’t spendSubscriber Only
Defence ministry shows a troubling inability to spend budgetary allocations.
Manish Sabharwal
Mar 2, 2015
A triumph for plumbingSubscriber Only
This budget makes a radical new promise — policy will pray at the altar of jobs.
Ashok Gulati
Mar 2, 2015
Silence on the farmSubscriber Only
Budget should have rationalised food-fertiliser subsidies to raise agri-investment.
Ram Madhav
Mar 2, 2015
The twain shall meetSubscriber Only
BJP-PDP is the most difficult alliance in J&K. It could also be the most durable.
Vikram S Mehta
Mar 2, 2015
Over the Barrel: Green fig leafSubscriber Only
Finance minister’s focus on growth and equity is incomplete. He should have acknowledged the trade-off between the need for energy and the imperative of environmental protection.
jahangir-aziz
Mar 2, 2015
Provider to facilitatorSubscriber Only
After nine months of tinkering, with this budget, the government has begun institutional change. Yet, reneging on the promised fiscal consolidation is a problem.
Coomi Kapoor
Mar 1, 2015
Inside Track: Yadav weds YadavSubscriber Only
Lalu once hoped that his eldest daughter Misa would marry Yadav’s eldest son Akhilesh.
Tavleen Singh
Mar 1, 2015
Fifth column: Not Jantar Mantar againSubscriber Only
The land law is not the only bad piece of legislation that the last government bestowed upon us.
Meghnad Desai
Mar 1, 2015
Out of my mind: A house of illusionsSubscriber Only
Every country which is rich today was once poor and agrarian. It got rich by using land for industry.
P Chidambaram
Mar 1, 2015
Across The Aisle – Fourteenth FC: Generous to a fault?Subscriber Only
Abhijit Sen can take heart that he may not be alone when he wrote his four-page dissent to the Report of the FFC.
