Dr Shreekant Sambrani pays tribute to Dr M S Swaminathan, the renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who passed away in Chennai last week. IMAGE: Prime Minister......
Sharad Pawar reckons that the NCP has value as a united, going concern, not as a gaggle of leaders in search of followers, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Sharad Pawar, who stepped down as......
What these elections prove beyond any doubt (if ever there was one) that Modi's hold over the public mind and Shah's mastery of election management are unparalleled.It doesn't seem likely that they......
We have our own problems for sure and they are not trivial, but for now, our economy is in not too bad a shape, our politics is as personality-driven and authoritarian as that of most countries in......
Shreekant Sambrani is confident that today's adversity will make the country emerge even stronger Last Independence Day, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, not yet the prime ministerial......
Mercifully, the government is not in denial this year, as it was three years ago, writes Shreekant Sambrani Drought looms as large this year as it did in 2009, even as attempts to play down its......
Most recently, IMD failed to predict the 2009 drought and continued to mislead policy makers into believing that it was only a 'rainfall deficit' well into August, writes Shreekant Sambrani.......
India should not allow millions to suffer the ill effects of a drought because of official apathy or sluggishness, says T N Ninan. One of the notable episodes of Rajiv Gandhi's leadership of the......
The government is doing things in agriculture that count for little, says Shreekant Sambrani. Roughly a third of the way through his Budget speech three weeks ago, the finance minister paused for......
Mr Modi must now work to win over the governor as a friend and learn to influence people credibly, says Shreekant Sambrani. One wishes that someone had sounded the caution heard......