In our July issue, I suggested the ruling AIADMK should consider offering a safe Rajya Sabha seat to Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar. The DMK could offer such a seat to Dr. Manmohan Singh. Such concepts are readily accepted in several other states, but political parties in Tamil Nadu
WALKING INTO THE SUNSET
India's world cup dreams lay shattered by one rank bad performance by what was otherwise a clinically sharp display. India lost because they were becoming arrogant and full of themselves. They lost because they were attributing everything good to one man, just as has been the practice in politics in recent
She changed the face of Delhi
Sheila Dikshit made a lasting contribution to raising the beauty and infrastructure of the national capital New Delhi as one comparable to several other world capitals. The best tribute to Sheila Dikshit came from her bitter political adversaries: from Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to Arvind Kejriwal. They paid lavish
A wrong precedent
The journey of 11 Nightingales
SHOULD INDIA IMPORT NEWSPRINT?
India needs a vision and a long-term strategy to help any segment to emerge globally competitive with a large volume of production. Sugar mills can create capacity for 3 million tonnes of newsprint, based on bagasse. This can make India a large producer with competitive price advantage. The budget has
Industry and Commerce need separate technocrat ministers
There is a need for a re-look at burdening a brilliant and effective cabinet minister like Piyush Goyal with multiple heavy portfolios. ‘Railways’ is a busy portfolio. Suresh Prabhu was spending a lot of energy and initiative in revamping Indian Railways. Unfortunately, due to a spate of accidents, he was moved
The small step that proved a giant leap
The present efforts at consolidation of the PSBs, merging them to larger sizes, and the resort to technology and digital cashless transactions could mark another quantum jump in banking practices. Bureaucrat G Ramachandran in his Memoirs, Walking with Giants, reminisced on the trigger for bank nationalisation: in the late 1960s as
