'The dominance of her party also meant that the institutions became lopsided -- whether it was the bureaucracy or the courts or the military.''She centralised power to the extent that you would see......
'He fears that the youth tide has gone against him and he will be swept away in the next assembly election in the state.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs holding a banner protesting against the......
'The strategy of frontal organisations of the Maoists is to create unrest and ensure that such unrest leads to a law and order problem.' 'To cover such acts it was necessary to bring in a different......
'Today we know of many X, Y, and Z persons as urban Naxals but can we call these people as such? No, we cannot because we don't have a legal framework for doing that.' IMAGE: A protest in......
'Five months after the elections in February 2024, the Pakistan army has not been able to break Imran Khan's resolve and break his political party.' IMAGE: Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim......
'In the short term you keep your return expectations very, very low; in the medium term be prepared to invest and in the long term growth will come and your returns from stocks will be high.'......
'India's fundamentals are a lot better (than those of other emerging market economies).' 'India will suffer (witness a fall in its stock market) what I call the second order effect.''And the second......
'The structural story of India is a multi-decadal story.''One should stay invested in that story and avoid reacting to what is happening globally.' IMAGE: The Bombay Stock Exchange. Photograph:......
'Forget your loss or profit in your portfolio.''Look at how much cash you have in hand.''If you don't have cash in hand, liquidate at least partially; get into about 20 per cent in cash.'......
'If you invest in sovereign gold bond, you are going to get the price rise of gold over an eight year period.''You're also going to get that two-and-a-half percent which the Government of India is......
Had it not been for Pankaj Tripathi, who must have worked hard to get those Vajpayee intonations and mannerisms so perfectly well, Ravi Jadhav's flattering portrait of Vajpayee would have been more......