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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern created history of sorts by announcing her surprise resignation which will come into effect February 7. With nearly seven months remaining before her term ends, her action is in sharp contrast to that of many current Presidents and Prime...

Governance is defined as the system by which an organisation is controlled and operates, and the mechanisms by which it, and its people, are held to account. Ethics, risk management, compliance and administration are all elements of governance. ‘Good governance’ is said to have eight...

The recent registration of a case by the CBI against former finance secretary Arvind Mayaram and a few other officials of the Finance Ministry for alleged “irregularities” in the supply of the security thread for currency notes has caused some disquiet in babu circles. Is...

The latest Oxfam report has nailed the truth in India where a microscopic rich minority is getting richer and the majority grovelling in poverty. Yet, the main political discourse seems oriented towards religion. The Congress, which is desperately trying to refurbish its image as a...

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has always been more than a little problematic. But in recent years, the annual gathering of the rich and powerful has become an increasingly wasteful exercise in vanity. What is the point of all those private...

My good friend Ram Madhav has written a piece saying that “most leaders reacted to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s interview without reading it.” Now I have not read Madhav’s piece, but that is not the point. The issue is whether the RSS is misunderstood and,...

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is undergoing a revamp. Early last month, the government appointed Arun Kumar Singh, who had earlier headed BPCL, as the chairperson of ONGC. Apparently, this is the first instance of a 60-year-old retiree being appointed as the head...

Brazil now has its own version of the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by supporters of the defeated President, Donald Trump. Two years and two days later, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the National Congress, the Supreme Court, and the...

Until fairly recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping touted his zero-COVID policy as proof that authoritarian one-party states like China are better equipped to deal with pandemics (or any other crisis) than messy democracies hampered by selfish politicians and fickle electorates. This might have seemed plausible...

In a chilling replication of the violence in the US Capitol in Washington DC by supporters of former US President Donald Trump two years back, hundreds of supporters of Brazil’s recently ousted President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s seats of power – the Congress, the...