(An edited version of this article has appeared in the 10 Nov. Edition of DNA India and may be accessed here) The recent statements of Dr. Manmohan Singh at the G20 Summit are extremely unnerving. That the Prime Minister of the country- being a prominent economist himself- should say that inflation is good as it [...]
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Fog of Conspiracy Theories
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Politics on Jul 11th, 2011
In the current issue of EPW, I respond to a rather shocking assertion made by a Mumbai-based rights activist – that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the US military-industrial complex as a pretext to go to war. Unfortunate as it was, this bit of denialism was often highlighted as the life and soul of [...]
The Decade of Reconciliation?
Posted in corruption, india, Lok Pal, Politics, Reforms on Jun 13th, 2011
“You have to know the past to understand the present” – Dr Carl Sagan The 1990s are often referred to as the decade when India came of age. This attribution was basically due to the sweeping economic reforms that led to an absolute change in the Indian investment climate. The economic reforms apart, the Indian [...]
This is not a post related to Baba Ramdev and his trials and tribulations. However, during one of his interviews on the issue, Mani Shankar Iyer made a statement that perhaps issues of bad governance wouldn’t arise if Parliament is allowed to function normally. He hinted at the manner in which the opposition has been [...]
Advice for good government. To the Congress as it enters its third year. – Please stop waging political battles about the farmers in UP. The crux of the issue is the property rights of the farmers that are being taken away. Moving from that to ‘rumours’ about atrocities doesn’t alleviate their situation. With the NCW [...]
I sat in front of the computer today to read the judgment of the Supreme Court in Amar Singh v. Union of India. The expectation of reading a landmark judgment on the right to privacy of public figures turned out to be a disappointment. In this case, Amar Singh had challenged the ‘authorised’ tapping of [...]
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