Economy
MP shows new way to fool people
Some ideas, George Orwell said, are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. And Indian politicians act on many such...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Sep 2017, 10:38Oil prices: Govt fools, fleeces people
The Narendra Modi government is using every trick to justify the costlier petrol and diesel. From the rising crude prices...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Sep 2017, 02:22Gadkari’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, 01:53