Only the Indian elite would rather not breathe than be ordinary.
A brief report card on Modi's ministers.
A government that confuses PowerPoints for policy is delaying structural change too much.
China's slowing means commodity markets are no longer overheated.
If the government does not allow the Opposition a few victories, then it is opening the door to paralysis and an entrenched culture of confrontation.
Modi government needs to focus more.
We need credible retellings of the times we have lived through, or the events in the immediate past that have shaped our today, says Mihir S Sharma
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi fails to live up to the expectations that he has raised, it will be entirely his fault. He should have started by ending the IAS
A simple guide to the strange defensiveness of the government and its supporters, and how and why the arguments they're making are wrong.
Narendra Modi is squandering a mandate for change on feeble, unimaginative incrementalism.
The current draft of the Goods and Services Tax could kill any hope of economic revival - and you should blame the Congress if it rolls over and lets it pass, says Mihir S Sharma.
The media has given the PM and his government a far easier time than it probably deserves.
Mr Modi must stop talking, and start writing
It is time for Mr Modi to be a little more reasonable and rational.
Union Budget 2015 cuold have included few smaller reforms.
The party has tried to downplay its vice-president's sudden move, saying he is the leader and will come back soon to play a pro-active role in party affairs
Government's reforms are too half-hearted. But Rahul Gandhi's Congress is too amateurish and inept to hold it to account.
Tirole's insights show how real-world incentives are complicated, and contracts can be difficult to write and enforce.
All those of us who care about books should welcome the appointment, as head of the Indian Council of Historical Research, of Yellapragada Sudarshan Rao. This is not because Rao has so far distinguished himself as a writer about "history and tourism management", which is the department of Kakatiya University in Warangal he headed before retiring to head an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed project to "write history from a nationalist perspective and popularise Sanskrit", two aims which naturally go together for the RSS.
Mihir S Sharma on the false opposition being created between 'governance' and 'vote bank politics'.
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