“Biharnomics” Examined
In Alaskonomics and Bihar – Part I, I raised the point about distribution of taxes and income amongst various states in India. This matter is at the heart of several controversies – the most...
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“Three Hundred Ramayanas” & “The Jewel of Medina”
Last week, responding to a petition to ban a history textbook, the Supreme Court asked Delhi University’s expert panel to consider the views of petitioners before submitting a final report to the Vice-Chancellor. As some...
The amazing story of pointReturn
Those of you old enough to be online in the early part of this century would remember a site called “GoodNewsIndia“. I was reminded of the site in a completely different context (during the course...
Jamia Nagar: A dangerous cocktail…
…of vote-bank politics, breakdown in law and order, land mafias and alienated ghettoes. Please read on… I received this email about the Jamia Nagar encounter last weekend. It is from Shri Anant Trivedi. Sh Trivedi is...
Excerpts from “Art of War”
Excerpts from a review of Arun Shourie’s “Are we deceiving ourselves again?” by Brahma Chellaney: …having forsaken the Kautilyan principles, has proven no match to China’s Sun Tzu-style statecraft. From Nehru’s grudging acceptance of...
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