Category: Politics and Governance in India

Readings for Sleepless Nights: Liberals, Tharoor and BJP

First, some excerpts from a piece by Gerard Alexander on Why are liberals so condescending? Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries...

On sanitary napkins and innovation…

OR how the politics of subsidies kills the spirit of entrepreneurship… From NextBillion, comes this story by Rishabh Kaul of an extra-ordinary innovation that is being threatened by the politics of subsidies. …Last month,...

China can take Arunachal in 48 hours…

…and we are in no hurry to do anything about it. Excerpts from a very worrying article by Suman Sharma in Open Magazine (Hat Tip: Centerof right; emphasis mine): Repeated violations of the Indo-Chinese...

Stuff to read in a travel black hole…

This is what I’m reading as I find myself stuck in a travel black hole… 1. R Jagannathan on why “Manmohan Singh is the dynasty’s fall guy” (emphasis mine)… Both the prime minister and...