Category: Politics and Governance in India

On Implications of the Communal Violence Bill..

A few weeks back, at one of my frequent sessions at Chanakya Institute of Public Leadership, I got the chance to share my thoughts on the proposed Communal Violence Bill with participants in the...

On Cow Slaughter etc..

This post has been some time in coming – and I am penning my thoughts on something controversial after a long time. It was prompted by the recent decision of government of MP to...

Might this be the real cause of Muslim “backwardness”?

The question was prompted by these excerpts fom Salil Tripathi‘s “An excuse called Rushdie” (emphasis added): Only one out of every six Muslim children entering an Indian school stays till his matriculation. I use...

In which Sanjeev takes on Narayana Murthy..

A thought-provoking extract from a post on FTI colleague Sanjeev’s blog: I don’t know how this man Narayana Murthy gets the audacity to lecture to others about doing something. For nine years now I...