India
Encroachment, a birth-right
The events leading to violence in Mathura are symptomatic of the many an inveterate malady in the body politic. Two...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Jun 2016, 11:45India shining: High GDP, core sector growth, fiscal consolidation
The Indian economy has started looking good, with a robust growth, a spurt in the core sector data, and steady...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 01 Jun 2016, 07:21Cong leaders love their chains
One of the most abiding imageries registered on my mind is a scene from V. Shantaram’s Do aankhen baarah haath....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 May 2016, 02:18Nehru is dead, long live Nehru
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always appeared to a most vehement critic of Nehru and the Nehru Consensus. This appearance...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 May 2016, 01:51Second year, eleventh hour
A year ago, I called Narendra Modi’s government first year in office as “a big disappointment” (https://thehinduchronicle.com/2015/05/modi-s-one-year-a-big-disappointment/). Today, two years...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 May 2016, 12:34Not all Cong losses are BJP gains
The Left wins and loses, the Right wins and loses, regional parties win and win, the Congress loses, loses, loses,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 May 2016, 01:24Congress’ rotten core
The clock is ticking for the Congress. How it fares will be known on May 19 but if the exit...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 May 2016, 09:28No sushasan in Bihar
The Aditya Sachdeva murder has not only exposed the perversity of the unruly son of an unsavory politician couple but...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 May 2016, 01:29With friends like Jaitley and Shah, Modi needs no enemies
The controversy surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualification highlights, for the nth time, the growing spite and flippancy in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 11 May 2016, 12:12Indian scientist awarded Rs 14.7-cr grant
An Indian scientist has been awarded a grant of Singapore dollars 3 million (about Rs 14.7 crore) by the National...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 10 May 2016, 09:53