'I get enormous pleasure from seeing the uplift of an underprivileged or poor person.''I feel elated when I walk on the street and see someone who pushes a handcart talking on a cell phone.'A......
'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......
If Modi is truly a reformer and a believer in minimum government, he would bury the Vodafone ghosts now.He would also then go to Bihar, campaigning on his politically controversial reforms. Both......
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......
What the Indian economy looks like next January will influence her view on India, not her genetics, notes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris accepts......
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,......
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......
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......
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......
The Planning Commission has not been central to the policymaking process since the mid-1960s, says Nitin Desai. In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the end of the......