CRISES HAVE OFTEN been the springboard for new disruptive growth. Remember the fiscal crisis of 1990- 91 proving a game-changer to discard decades of state controls - licences, permits and quotas - that heralded the era of liberalisation?There have been myriad suggestions on turning the Covid19 crisis into an opportunity. The
MODI MAGIC Voted for decisive action
CSK, MI and Dhoni
The slugfest between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings has shades of the Ashes battle and fans of the two clubs love to hate each other. Here's a sample exchange. • Hey, we are champs. • 1-0 • Come to Chennai. We will see. • 2-0 • Qualifierla vaanga • 3-0 • Finalla vechu pathudomla. • 4-0 • Next year
Voted for decisive action
Goodies for everybody! Nothing interim about it
In more ways than one, the Piyush Goyal budget was different. First, unlike previous finance ministers, many of them lawyers or career politicians, Goyal, a chartered accountant, did not confine to reading the printed text. He made it lively with detailed explanations of the proposals in English and Hindi. Also,
Let bygones be bygones; move ahead.
A case for simultaneous elections
With every election to a state, the quality of campaign deteriorates. In the race-to-the-bottom, all civility is thrown to the winds. Look at the address of Congress President Rahul Gandhi after BJP’s Yeddyurappa resigned his two-day term: “Prime Minister Modi will accept a man accused of murder as the President of
