A Modest Proposal To Improve Governance, Hindustan Times
The Harvard economist Lant Pritchett has called India a ‘flailing state’. The signs are all around us; in the decaying government schools and the declining public hospitals, in the apathy [...]
How Mining Corrodes Democracy, The Telegraph
When the new millennium dawned, the poster boy of economic liberalization in my home state, Karnataka, was N. R. Narayana Murthy. A man from a middle-class home, with no tradition [...]
Indian Marxists And Their Selective Outrage, The Telegraph
In a recent essay in the Times Literary Supplement, the Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif marvelled at the unending flood of books and essays on the Palestinians, these the work of [...]
Looting The Himalaya – And The Himalayans, The Telegraph
In recent months, Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh have been in the news. In both states, elected Governments run by the Congress have been destabilized by the ruling party at the [...]
When Progressives Turn Reactionary, Hindustan Times
In the conventional wisdom, the Right stands for Order, the Left for Change. The Right defends Hierarchy and Authority, the Left demands Justice and Equality. The Right is for and [...]
The Seductions Of Self Praise, The Telegraph
Last week, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the liberalization process, the Indian Express carried a long interview with Dr Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister at the time the reforms took [...]