RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
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
Disinvestment, then and now
We don’t slaughter cows, Arun Shourie once said, we starve them to death. The disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government knew it too well. For public sector undertakings (PSUs) ar... Read More
Sterlite: When Caesarism undermines administration
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is often accused of focusing on optics rather than on substance, but it is wrong to single him out, for he is not the only politician who equates statecraft with perceptio... Read More
George Orwell 2.0 in Karnataka
During the high-voltage drama in Karnataka, a lot of terms pertaining to domestication were used—flock, herd, poaching, shepherd, horse trading, et al. Perhaps the English language was expressing it... Read More
Feminism is illiberal
The recent spate of rapes highlighted by the media has once again brought the champions of feminism to the fore. It is an ideology whose authenticity and goodness are never examined; they are assumed ... Read More
Liberals on jihad mode against Kanye West and the West
The rapper Kanye West’s slavery remarks are indeed insensitive. He suggested that the blacks in America chose to become and remain slaves for centuries. He is wrong because in a society that legitim... Read More
Price controls: Remedy worse than malady
What former US president John F. Kennedy said about victory and defeat can be paraphrased in the Indian context as: statism has a thousand fathers, but liberty is an orphan. Most politicians and intel... Read More