Economy
Gadkari’s big-band theory
Can measures favored, rather threatened, by a minister be diametrically opposite to government policy? Well, in the wonder that is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 10 Sep 2017, 07:21Free India, unfree India Inc. – Part 2
The life of Jamnalal Bajaj (1889-1942) exemplifies the freedom of thought and action that Indian industrialists enjoyed during the Raj....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Aug 2017, 09:53Free India, unfree India Inc – Part 1
At a time when India is celebrating the 70th anniversary of Independence, it would be instructive to find how free...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Aug 2017, 09:44Def Ministry’s reliance on public sector smacks of socialist mindset
The Defence Ministry’s decision to exclude the private sector for the upgrade of 693 BMP-2 infantry combat vehicles (ICVs) reeks...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jul 2017, 12:53GST shouldn’t be fiscal socialism
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tried to sell the new goods and services tax (GST) as “good and simple tax,”...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Jul 2017, 11:35NAPA is GM monster from Jurassic age
The new goods and services tax (GST) regime, we are told, will be a boon for the economy; it would...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Jun 2017, 01:15Narendra Indira Modi checks ‘profiteering’
The anti-profiteering rules under the goods and services tax (GST) regime give the lie to the Narendra Modi government’s commitment...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jun 2017, 01:18Waiver epidemic spreads
Has the political class gone bonkers about loan waivers? And why just politicians? Everybody who is somebody, everybody who thinks...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jun 2017, 01:53Farmers stir: Messaging isn’t governance
The farmers agitation—which began in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur, spread to Neemuch, Ratlam, and Indore districts, and threatens to spread to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jun 2017, 10:23Falling prey to waiver monster
When representatives of farmers and activists demand farm loan waiver, they are countered with the arguments pertaining to fiscal prudence,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 11 Jun 2017, 03:06