RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
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
Modi triggers a quit India movement
In Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged, business leaders start disappearing from America because of stifling government controls. Something similar is happening in Narendra Modi’s India: the r... Read More
Privatisation only solution to improve public banks
‘Tis a lesson you should heed:/Try, try, try again./If at first you don’t succeed,/Try, try, try again—so goes the inspirational poem. Government after government has followed this while dea... Read More
A critique of Nehruvian Consensus
In a country where public discourse is still hugely influenced by Left-liberals, it takes guts to come out with a narrative antithetical to the one peddled by them. Therefore, Anushree Mukherjee’s T... Read More
The pot calling the kettle black
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has got some cheek. Instead of apologizing to the nation for letting Nirav Modi rob the Punjab National Bank (PNB), which being a public sector lender is under his watch,... Read More