RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
Net neutrality: A socialist idea whose time has come
You can trust India to remain faithfully wedded to the big-state dogma. By accepting the principle of net neutrality, which prohibits Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from favouring or discriminating... Read More
MSP hike is both bad politics and economics
The Narendra Modi government is trying to sell the higher minimum support prices (MSPs) it announced recently as a measure to “end farm distress”. But, at the end of the day, the announcement, lik... Read More
Another awful report targets India
The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey, which says that India is the world’s most dangerous country for women, is an affront to common sense and reason. And yet, thanks to the depravity of our politi... Read More
MEA must move beyond Nehruvian past
John O’Sullivan, a British conservative commentator, has a law named after him. O’Sullivan’s First Law says: “All organisations that are not actually Rightwing will over time become Leftwing.... Read More
A dark horse gets ready
At the fag end of Jawaharlal Nehru’s regime, political commentators discussed no end ‘after Nehru who’; an American journalist even wrote a book by that title. A somewhat similar situation obtai... Read More
Ex-Prez holds a mirror to Congress
The political controversy created by former president Pranab Mukherjee’s speech at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur has actually underlined much that is problematic and unhealthy in Indian politics. I... Read More
Little sweet in sugar package
The Rs 7,000-crore sugar package cleared by the Narendra Modi government on 6 June is another instance of taxpayer-funded state intervention to help farmers. The package is a palliative. Rural distres... Read More
Bank privatisation is only solution
The Finance Ministry has decided not to urge the Reserve Bank of India to relax its prompt corrective action (PCA) mechanism, but this can scarcely address the real issues like non-performing assets (... Read More