Month: March 2016
Small savings schemes interest rates slashed; to hit middle class
Forced to withdraw taxation on retirement funds, the government has decided to lower interest rates on small savings, including on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Mar 2016, 02:03Nationalism sucks
In the wake of JNU-Afzal Guru row and the subsequent events like Waris Pathan’s suspension from the Maharashtra Assembly, it...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Mar 2016, 06:36Virulence of nationalism
The suspension of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MLA from Mumbai, Waris Pathan, from the Maharashtra Assembly is deeply flawed...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Mar 2016, 06:08Merkel pays for Muslim appeasement
There is something rotten in the core of liberal democracies. The erratic behavior of Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, is a...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Mar 2016, 04:03RSS is right on quotas
Reservations in India have become a subject that is beyond the province of public discourse. Anybody seeking a debate or...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2016, 06:56Money > national interest
Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur has a lot of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2016, 08:15Liberals ignore real threat
A big problem with liberals, particular those in India, is that they underplay the threat posed by the Left and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Mar 2016, 12:23Culture of pageantry
The World Culture Festival, organized by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AoL) Foundation, may be a good idea,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Mar 2016, 08:19HELPing hand… and foreign hand
The government’s Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy (HELP) has the potential of being a game-changer, in terms of attracting investment, generating...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 12 Mar 2016, 10:25King-size lifestyle… at taxpayer’s expense
Will the Vijay Mallya scandal have an ending different from most other scandals? One has to be quite bullish to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 11 Mar 2016, 08:10