Poverty – Statistics and Lies!
A new study by Abusaleh Shariff and Anirudh Krishna has brought fresh insights on whether poverty is decreasing or increasing.…
Budget 2010 – It is neither “inclusive” nor “popular”!
Budget 2010 is being widely praised in the media and by business leaders as an “inclusive” budget, a “budget with…
Political parties and “paid news”
Several political parties are pushing for an amendment to the Representation of the People Act to declare “paid news” as…
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The recent UK elections and the wheelings and dealings after that gave a feeling of déjà vu for us in…
Is the UPA government really accountable to the people?
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently presented his government’s report on completion of the first year of the second stint of the…
Mockery of Justice at Bhopal
A good 26 years after the horrific tragedy in Bhopal, the worst industrial accident in the world, a trial court…
The sad state of secondary education in India
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 provides the right to education, atleast on paper, for…
David Cameron’s visit is not in the interests of the Indian people
The British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit is not a joyful event for the Indian people. In fact we have…
India@63 – Are we really politically free?
Sixty three years of Indian independence has meant different things for different sections of the people. The small minority of the…
The Financial War
As the G20 finance ministers gather in South Korea to defuse tensions in currency markets caused by the fallout of the…