All stories by T C A Srinivasa Raghavan
Modi will pay for note ban blunder
Rediff.com28 Dec 2016It would be a miracle if demonetisation doesn't extract a political price from the BJP and Modi, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
How India paid the price for 'EPW types'
Rediff.com30 Sep 2016Had it not been for the intellectual dominance and political legitimacy of the Leftist philosophy since 1970, would EPW have become what it did? After all, there were other more established journals around then, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Hinduism, nationalism and socialism: the latest political conundrum
Rediff.com28 Mar 2016Hinduism, nationalism and socialism may be okay separately, but in equal combination they yield political nonsense.
Why PM needs a State of the Union-style stock-taking
Rediff.com1 Mar 2016The PMO should also present an annual report, on the state of politics and society
Why this obsession with the fiscal deficit target?
Rediff.com23 Feb 2016Don't waste the money on politically motivated social programmes.
Holy war in the nuclear age: A recipe for extinction
Rediff.com7 Dec 2015Centuries old religious conflicts may be nearing an inevitable end with the addition of nuclear warheads to their arsenal, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Guess who has been the best governor at the RBI?
Rediff.com16 Nov 2015From a national point of view, inflation is the biggest threat posed by finance ministers.
Why can't we have a women's party?
Rediff.com10 Nov 2015If you can have caste and faith based parties, why can't there be a gender based one as well, asks T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
How time and again India managed to come out of financial crisis
Rediff.com19 Sep 2015Though Narendra Modi doesn't know it, he is a victim of this deep-rooted infection.
Why there's no end to labour woes in India? Few observations
Rediff.com5 Sep 2015Governments find themselves expanding the entitlements of the least productive - farmers and bureaucrats - and abridging those of the more productive parts of the workforce.
What's the big idea, Mr Modi?
Rediff.com8 Jun 2015PM Modi must revive investment sentiment in the country.
India-China: A tale of two spiders
Rediff.com16 May 2015How should sophisticated countries deal with others that have a huge body but a small brain?
Lessons Modi needs to learn from Manmohan
Rediff.com5 May 2015If the PM wishes to be re-elected in 2019, there are a few things he needs to learn from his predecessor
The passing of Slogan Murugan
Rediff.com4 Apr 2015The purposeful Narendra Modi who won the election has been replaced by a prime minister who looks quite lost, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
RBI governors and their bittersweet relationship with the govt
Rediff.com2 Apr 2015Erstwhile RBI governors, including Raghuram Rajan never had cordial relations with the government.
It's a taxing time for India's growth
Rediff.com20 Feb 2015Maybe the new methods of measuring GDP helped us get an accurate picture.
BJP and Congress: The Deewaar problem
Rediff.com9 Feb 2015'The Congress has a great programme, but a suspect leader. The BJP has a great leader, but a suspect programme.'
Of PMs and their pet economists
Rediff.com17 Jan 2015Economists who get too close to prime ministers eventually come to grief after their boss is defeated
Made for each other
Rediff.com18 Nov 2014T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan on what's so fascinating about politics that books by journalists about it sell so well.
New whine from old aunts
Rediff.com9 Sep 2014Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being accused of wrong things. His main problem is his view of himself, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan