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Disquieting Governance

I have been contemplating a short article on the disquieting nature of governance for some time. This desire got hastened after media reports...

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Governance

The fuel dilemma

IN December 2016, India’s apex environmental body Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) released a 14-page study about the ill-effects of Furnace Oil (FO...

Governance

Sagarmala 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)...

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Regulating wealth

WHEN US President Donald Trump announced a reduction in corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, there was almost...

Governance

The omniscient bureaucrat

YOU love them, you hate them; you praise them, you decry them; but, you can neither be rid of them nor ignore them....

Governance

All that glitters isn’t Modi

KUCHCH din to gujaro Gujarat main! Only then can you visualise the entrepreneurial spirit of money-making adventures that grips the soul of a...

Governance

Standard deduction, a mere delusion

IN the budget speech, the Finance Minister, in para 151, under the caption ‘relief to salaried taxpayers’, has accepted the contribution of such...

Defence

My 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...

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Governance

The 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...

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Governance : More than just celebration

REPORTS in the media surface occasionally about social functions like marriages, birthdays, anniversaries, etc., being performed on sea/air and at reputed places in...