'Who Does Not Want To Be Prime Minister?'

'We are going to need more technical people in government.''You can't expect a generalist to understand the complicated world of financial engineering.''I regret to say that most of our politicians......

What makes for a good autobiography?

As cricketing ability goes, there is no comparison between Sanjay Manjrekar and Sachin Tendulkar. But while the former has produced a wonderful autobiography, the latter’s book is deadly......

After protests, Wharton cancels Modi's keynote address

The prestigious Wharton school on Sunday cancelled the keynote address of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, following uproar from a section of university professors and students about the......

PM should crack the whip on his ministers

The country's external affairs minister publicly disagreeing with the Union's home minister, or at least his ministry? There is nothing new about it. From the days of Prime Minister Jawaharlal......

What Montek told the Indian diaspora

How serious was Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia when he said that India was not after non resident Indian funds or NRI money? At the annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,......

Modi needs to listen to our economists

We have a government with an extremely weak economic team advising a PM who hardly pays attention to their thoughts, says Jayanta Roy. Photograph: Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   I......

Modi govt does not acknowledge the word 'slowdown': Manmohan

There is a need for tax reforms in the country in a bolder way, Singh said. In a sharp attack on the Modi government over the state of the economy, former prime minister Manmohan Singh on......

Lessons Kamal Nath should take

Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath's outburst against the Planning Commission (read Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia's  adviser Gajendra Haldea) at a function on......