The big spend

Saturday 13 December '08

The government’s newly announced stimulus package offers a mixture of measures: budgetary, monetary and credit-linked. Additional expenditure is proposed on a large number of infrastructure schemes.

Keeping the wolf from the door

Wednesday 12 November '08

The financial crisis’ impact is rippling across the globe. India’s marginally less affected only because its growth has mainly been driven by domestic growth and consumption.

Dragging us down

Tuesday 11 November '08

Although warning signals regarding an impending global financial crisis were visible for some time...

The stakes are high

Saturday 24 May '08

The Karnataka assembly elections are finally over and the verdict is sealed in the electronic voting machines.

Bureaucrazy

Tuesday 9 October '07

Why we recommended that the Official Secrets Act must be abolished

Bapu’s axis of good

Wednesday 13 September '06

Gandhi asked himself: how can you believe in a moral precept and not live by it? In the gulf between word and belief lay untruth

Value change please, not regime change

Saturday 2 September '06

On the pretext of strengthening democracy, the US is using force to push for a change of leadership in Islamic countries. The world should get together and say this can’t be allowed. And a strong secular India must lead this voice