RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
Continuous claptrap
The Indian military complaining about shortage of funds when a soldier-worshipping, super-nationalist party is in office sounds incongruous, but the incongruities are an integral part of India. “The... Read More
Theatrics in testing times
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar says the “culprits [of class 10 and 12 leaks] would not go scot free.” Spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party have also been parroting si... Read More
How to invent a martyr
Everybody loves a martyr in India. And the intensity of love is so great that if some group finds no suitable candidate in sight, they invent one. The beatification of Harish Khare, who recently resig... Read More
Farming woes: The cure is not more socialism
That rhetoric and events are no substitute for reforms is increasingly becoming evident in the economic sphere. The farmers’ march from Nashik to Mumbai once against highlighted this fact, along wit... Read More
Mandatory CSR is morally reprehensible, logically repugnant, and economically wasteful
Of all the sins perpetrated by the political class against private enterprise in this century, the most conspicuous and insidious has been mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR). Since sin al... Read More
Sonia, a perfect hypocrite
Deceit and hypocrisy are not the preserve of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In her speech at India Today Conclave 2018, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi made it evident. Read the full article: htt... Read More
Fleecing taxpayers to fatten fraudsters
Behind every great fortune, wrote the French author Honore de Balzac, lies a great crime—or a great scam, which is more appropriate in the Indian context. The Nirav Modi scandal exemplifies this tru... Read More
Nirmala Sitharaman’s inscrutable silence
What can our country expect from the Defence Minister who cannot even defend the soldiers who are politically targeted? Well, it is what it is: we have a ruling dispensation which sings patriotic song... Read More