The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated ...

Contract labour, temporary staff, gig employment have contributed to this phenomenon. The net result is that real wage levels in the US stagnate today at 1975 levels. For certain sectors, it is even ...

The only half-way positive aspects of the UPA-I period of governance such as the establishment of the RTI and NREGA programmes were the price Manmohan Singh had to pay to stabilise coalition rule, ...

Well known are the dubious motives of Union Steel Ministry to weaken RINL, gradually eroding its financial strength to privatise it finally in bits and pieces. Recently plant’s blast furnaces are shut ...

That kind of thing no politician would do! …When people talk of integrity, I say the best example is the man who occupies the highest office.” ( significant to point out that when this particular book ...

I was one of some 30 or 40 academics, scholars and journalists who went to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official residence in the heart of Delhi on account of a book release. The author was J.N.

I knew about Dr. Manmohan Singh as a brilliant economist, an OX-Bridge product and a faculty at the Delhi School of Economics. He made significant contributions in the area of Trade and Development, ...

I like to indulge in some broad reflections on the lessons of the year that is ending. My focus is largely on the political arena with some thoughts expressed on the direction of the economy, ...

The statement by the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah during a debate in the Rajya Sabha marking 75 years of India’s Constitution, referencing Dr Ambedkar has given rise to a much needed debate on what ...