Now let the PM square this circle

Tuesday 28 November '06

What had the prime minister drawn as the contours beyond which India would not budge on the Indo-US nuclear deal? Do the provisions of the bill as finally passed by the Senate fall within those contours? If they do not, how can the country now be made to swallow the deal?

China’s economic growth is not just ‘economic growth’

Wednesday 8 November '06

Real power translates directly into the ability to bring others around to subserve a country’s interests. India must take a clear-eyed view of what China is doing, and frame its own strategy

To race China, first let’s get our feet off the brakes

Tuesday 7 November '06

India’s growth story must generate confidence, not complacence. We must learn from China the ability to move on from momentary success or failure, keep the focus on reforms, take a decision and execute it

Learning to shield our academic excellence

Thursday 14 September '06

The number of students who come to India to study is going down. Meanwhile, the amount of money spent on Indian students studying abroad is sufficient to set up 30-40 IIMs or 15-20 IITs every year. The threat is that we may lose our best minds at a rate faster than ever before. The opportunity is that we can be educators to the world

We need the best for the brightest

Wednesday 13 September '06

Of course we need to expand and reorient our primary and vocational education. But that “higher education, the IITs and IIMs are for the elite” is nonsense. Higher learning and R&D can follow only from such higher learning and are just as necessary. It’s not “Either/or” but “And also”

In this tech-driven world, we can’t be asleep at the wheel

Tuesday 12 September '06

The cost of squandering resources on populist schemes will be paid not just in missed advantages but also in the resulting social unrest. First in a three-part series

‘Parity’, did you say?

Thursday 24 August '06

While India fantasises about “parity”, the US aims to acquire, in the form of an “ally”, an instrument that will do its bidding because it is dependent on the US, says Arun Shourie in the final part of his series on the nuclear deal

This is about energy, did you say?

Wednesday 23 August '06

The fine print of the laws Congress is passing shows how every aspect of India’s nuclear programme will exist solely at the pleasure of the US, says Arun Shourie in the second part of his analysis of the nuclear deal

Rescued from the abyss

Tuesday 22 August '06

In the first of a three-part analysis of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Arun Shourie argues that credibility has passed from the political class to professionals and entrepreneurs. And that the prime minister was wise to engage with the scientists’ misgivings

Third-class governance can’t give first-class response to terrorism

Wednesday 2 August '06

In the concluding part of his analysis, Arun Shourie details how a weak-kneed government response, in terms of both administration and diplomacy, has cost India the momentum and the edge in the Kashmir issue

National security through redefinition

Tuesday 1 August '06

In the first of a two-part analysis of national security, focusing on Naxalites and the Kashmir issue, Arun Shourie deals with increasing Naxalite terrorism across India and the Centre’s inadequate response