West Asia, which includes the Gulf Co-operation Council (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain) and other key regional players like Iraq and Iran is undergoing unprecedented changes. The international press has been very...
Subsidies in India on essential goods like water, electricity, food is a manifestation of political populism . It is a known fact that as the general elections drawing near , each political party irrespective of...
India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru had spearheaded the idea of introducing economic planning in India on the lines of similar efforts in the Soviet Union. Nehru was largely instrumental in the setting up of...
The possibility of a Secular Front emerging which will be composed of regional parties has become more concrete in recent days. This grouping could include JDU, AIADMK, SP, TMC, BJD, AGP, NC, INLD, JVM, NCP,...
Coming Sunday, 26th Jan 2014, we would be celebrating Republic Day in independent India, as 64 years ago, in 1950, on Jan 26th, the constitution of India came into force. Why do we celebrate such days or...
The great American author, poet philosopher Henry David Thoreau once said “Men have become the tools of their tools” Once said quotes seems getting true gradually. It is needless to say that the world has...
The idea of abolishing income tax is not a new idea. While working in the Ministry of Finance thirty years back I have seen such budget proposals from various agencies sent to the government. But...
Osmanabad, recaptured by Police Action from the Nizam not all that long ago and added to Maharashtra had a very curious species as their first IAS Assistant Collector in 1964. Someone who let the strains...
The results of the just concluded state elections have been declared. BJP certainly has an edge over Congress as far as these results are concerned. But this is only an edge and nothing substantial. It...
The Congress Government at the centre had been able to carry out most of the reform agenda it had set as target. It has passed the banking bill, pension bill, land acquisition bill, food security...
Diversity is a loaded term. When it comes to expanding the horizons in corporate settings, we should be looking for “diversity in perspectives”. The tech community has demonstrated that it is at best confused about...
A nuclear deal has been struck just months after Iran elected President Hassan Rowhani, seen as a relative moderate, replaced the hard-line Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. After four days of negotiations in Geneva, representatives of the P5+1...