Kapil Sibal could harvest the demographic dividend

Twenty years back when we left India, Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi used to consider India’s exploding population as a major national liability. Their successors, P V Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Dr Manmohan Singh converted this liability into a global human capital. How could this happen and that too virtually overnight? [...]

The troubled states of India!

India is a union of 28 fairly independent states governed by elected state legislators and a Chief Minister. In the initial stages of our republic, Nehru and Indira Gandhi used to treat the States as their personal fiefdom but for the past two decades, the Central Government has kept its hands off the administration of [...]

A nuclear Iran is dangerous but a nuclear Pakistan is safe!

This is the foreign policy of Barack Obama administration. India should not be surprised by this development. Every time a Democrat enters the White House, he can not find India for the first four years. Remember the fat guy from Arkansas, he came to office in 1993 but did not discover India till May 11, [...]

My confidence in the market is shaken!

Let me confess at the outset that I have been a lifelong free market entrepreneur. A heavy hand of the government has been an anathema to me and my core beliefs. Yet, the current financial crisis has given me a pause and a reevaluation of my fundamental thinking. I still vehemently oppose the communist-socialist logic [...]

The Hindi Heartland is not India!

A total disconnect between the Hindi Heartland and the South India is shocking. The politicians of North and specifically the Cow Belt are so far removed from the India of Gandhi Ji and Pandit Nehru that it does not feel like one country. How many times has Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia [...]

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