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The price of petrol has crossed Rs 100 in parts of India for the first time. A parallel development is that of the total revenue that the government receives, 33 per cent or one-third now comes from tax on fuel. India’s consumers pay the highest...

The capital’s Gymkhana Club, the 107-year-old watering hole favoured by the high and mighty of, currently beleaguered, Lutyens’ Delhi, is back in the news.  With its seemingly endless saga of mismanagement and irregularities, the club has been in the limelight a lot, unfortunately. The present...

Even as India’s GDP has been shrinking month after month, stock markets are rising to newer heights with every passing day. This dichotomy has been in full glare right since the second quarter of this financial year. An investor who put half their savings in...

In India most animal welfare people are vegetarians. We, in People for Animals, insist on that. After all, you cannot want to look after animals and then eat them. But most meat eaters, whether they are animal people or not, have a hesitant relationship with...

The Indian citizen is under attack. Today, the country is witnessing two very vocal segments of the population. Notwithstanding the quiet and faceless majority, the smaller two factions have decided to be either supportive of the government or be critiques. The attack seems to be...

Finally, it has come full circle. A young climate activist, Disha Ravi, is arrested and charged with sedition over accusations that she edited and circulated a Google doc toolkit that was also tweeted by internationally famous climate activist Greta Thunberg about the ongoing protests by...

“Chastened” and “subdued” are words not to be found in the lexicon of just ousted US President Donald Trump. That is why even after having been acquitted on 13 February of inciting the horrific attack on the US Capitol after a historic impeachment trial, he...

The Budget delivered earlier this month was praised for two things. First that it was spending money in the right place: capital expenditure, which would create value over the long term. And second that it was transparent. The deficit is three times what it should...

Last year, Arvind Panagariya, former vice-chief of the NITI Aayog, wrote in his book “India Unlimited – Reclaiming the Lost Glory” that Indian babus suffered from the socialist hangover, which has slowed down the pace of reforms the Modi sarkar wishes to introduce. To support...

Fuel prices in the country have been relentlessly rising. There is a consistent upward pressure on diesel and petrol rates. Petrol in the city cost Rs 88.27 per litre Wednesday, while diesel sold at Rs 84.68 per litre. The apparent reason for the upward movement...