Category: Development Related

Dividing India: one bit at a time

Last week, while catching up on news-reports re. the Ranganath Misra Commission, I was struck by how slowly but steadily we keep chipping away at an already fragile sense of national identity…by pitting one...

Weekend Reading: Worrying about China…

Three brief excerpts for the weekend on why China is becoming a worry for the global economy and why those numbers are hard to believe… First, an extract from China has now become the...

Nightmare at Noon*: Concluding the series

As I was fast-scanning the news headlines yesterday, a small item caught my eye. Writing in Rediff, Sanjay Jog noted …(in view of the water shortage) Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has introduced a 15 per...

Nightmare at Noon* – Water Wars

In this part of the “Nightmare at Noon” series, a look at why “Water” is the new “Oil”, the possibility of water scarcity leading to “Water Wars” in the future and China’s worrying plans...

Join the Debate – Are smaller states good for India?

Please use this thread to share thoughts, comments and ideas on re-organisation of states in India. To kick-start the discussion, excerpts from a few thought-provoking posts and articles below. The first excerpt from To...