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Governance‘Development’ sans equity is a scam
GLOBAL Wealth Report 2018 of Credit Suisse Group AG was released in October last. As per this report, the richest 10 per cent...
GovernanceAcademic autocracy and authoritarianism?
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics...
GovernanceAFSPA – A law that needs to go
While exercising draconian powers there is bound to be misuse. In a July 2016 verdict, the Supreme Court ripped open the cloak of...
State ScanChandigarh ‘Metropolis’ as Punjab Capital?
BY definition a Metropolis is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural centre for a country or...
GovernanceGovernance by fear : Signs of failing State!
INDIA just observed the 43rd anniversary of Emergency. Civil Rights stalwart Rajni Kothari described the period thus: “It was a State off-limits, a...
GovernanceReplace paperless EVMs with VVPAT EVMs
To Mr OP. Rawat, Chief Election Commissioner, Mr Sunil Arora, Election Commissioner Mr Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner Election Commission of India, Nirvachan Sadan,...
GovernanceSagarmala Corporate Colonising of India’s Coast?
SAGARMALA (sea garland) project is a humungous Rs. 8 trillion (Rs. 8 lakh crore) port-led-prosperity investment initiative of the Government of India (GoI)...
DefenceMy days in the Army
I was commissioned in the Indian Army on the Republic Day (26 January) of 1964 from Officer’s Training School, Poona and joined 17th...
GovernanceThe Choice is Clear: TECHNOLOGY or DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE?
FOUR years ago, this clarion, ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’, reverberated from every electoral platform of a particular political party. Believing it to be...
Haryana 51 YearsFar away from home My Haryana days
AS a student of Economics in the 1950s at the southernmost tip of India, I was fascinated by the ‘Idea of India’ development...
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