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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion in Rajasthan January 28 that several attempts were made to “break India geographically, culturally, socially and ideologically” seems to have a double meaning. It may not necessarily be an innocuous statement on India’s inherent strength and resilience that has stood...

Readers may be familiar with the fall in the Adani group’s share prices last week. Indian investors were reacting to the findings from Hindenburg, an American investment firm which released an extremely detailed and damning report on the group’s practices. Hindenburg has taken a short...

The metaphorical ‘double-engine ki sarkar’ in Maharashtra is also a two-headed one – led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, with the latter as the more assertive leader and clearly the real power centre. It is an uneasy and unequal...

The controversy surrounding the Supreme Court’s insistence on the Collegium system, which is publicly being kept alive by Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju through his daily statements to the media, is indeed very interesting to watch. Rijiju, on a daily basis, is attacking the Collegium...

The Indian government seems perplexed when it blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which has questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership as Chief Minister during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The step was taken only a few days before the country celebrates 26 January as...

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...