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Jaithirth RaoThe Financial Express |
My personal and professional associations with the Middle East over the years have led me to the conclusion that early claims of victory never last.
The lesson we seem to have learnt is that we should not bother with exporting goods if our remittances and service exports can help us keep our...
Read the Kambaramayanam, fully or in part, in the original stately Tamil or in translation. Immerse yourself in it. The irksome wars and issues of...
The West appears to many not only to be declining, but to be flailing around like ‘an ineffectual angel beating its wings in the void’.
Mark Tully witnessed the BBC turn into an anti-India outfit and repeatedly shame and humiliate itself in world circles. Never mind. Tully lives on,...
Setting revenue targets for officials is something that Bhishma, Thiruvalluvar, and Chanakya would have strongly opposed. It incentivises officials to...
The Western Ghats owe their impact on our collective consciousness almost entirely to Madhav Gadgil. And the ecologist did it with a seemingly dry...
Chávez and Maduro are not just leftists working up their class base. They also represent a majority excluded from positions of power.
One can be a tad more optimistic today about the revival of Nehruvian economics without the public-sector albatross.
The attempt is to keep talking about culture, arts, sociology, politics and an imagined Bengali identity. All of this, however, rests on an extremely...
Lobbying from Indian-origin CEOs, especially when there is direct interface between the US and India at the political level, is neither desirable nor...
Macaulay had total contempt for Indian literature and for Middle Eastern writing in Persian or Arabic. He was supremely confident that English...
I submit what seems to be an entirely plausible sequence of events, which ends up with a win-win alternative that everyone can live with.
If you are a trained ‘intellectual’ from JNU, Jadavpur, as well as TISS, then Latin America, its intellectual contributions, and its centrality in...
From Indian-origin people being kicked out of Uganda overnight to facing racism in Canada and the UK today, these instances offer lessons for the...
I write this open letter to Chandrababu Naidu as Indian emigration and return becomes a hot issue. Many H-1B workers in the US are from Andhra...
In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world...
The excessive publicity about Indian success stories and their high income and wealth levels has begun to breed envy and resentment in non-elite...
Perhaps the present crisis and trauma can force our country into something resembling that special moment we found in the sixties. Perhaps we can...
The hoo-ha about the Election Commission, about electoral rolls, and about EVMs suggests that irksome comic relief remains a part of the loud debates...
Trump needs a win. India can exploit this when drafting its strategy.
India’s next defence leap needs American fighter pilot John Boyd’s ‘do something’ philosophy.
India must focus on creating an ecosystem that dominates the technologies of future wars. Public-private partnerships are a key way to achieve this.
Unfortunately and unhappily for the British, they must spend a few more years sipping from the poisoned chalice of Starmerian Labour.
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