The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated ...

The only half-way positive aspects of the UPA-I period of governance such as the establishment of the RTI and NREGA programmes were the price Manmohan Singh had to pay to stabilise coalition rule, ...

That kind of thing no politician would do! …When people talk of integrity, I say the best example is the man who occupies the highest office.” ( significant to point out that when this particular book ...

Well known are the dubious motives of Union Steel Ministry to weaken RINL, gradually eroding its financial strength to privatise it finally in bits and pieces. Recently plant’s blast furnaces are shut ...

Contract labour, temporary staff, gig employment have contributed to this phenomenon. The net result is that real wage levels in the US stagnate today at 1975 levels. For certain sectors, it is even ...

I knew about Dr. Manmohan Singh as a brilliant economist, an OX-Bridge product and a faculty at the Delhi School of Economics. He made significant contributions in the area of Trade and Development, ...

The recent fracas in the Parliament over the remarks made by Home Minister Amit Shah, on Nehru’s reaction to Ambedkar’s resignation over the Hindu code bill has sparked a debate in the public sphere.

Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked ...

Manmohan Singh’s qualities as a human being outshone both his successes and failures as an administrator. He was, at the very core, a thorough gentleman, unlike most political animals, someone who ...