Right - Different Truths

May 25, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Four Years of Modi not a Bad Bargain for Economy: Probity in Decision-Making Seen Restored to a Degree

The first positive score would be that in four years we have not had one single instance of a major scandal. Accusations of money making on the sly by...

May 25, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Neither Khaki-Knicker nor Coloured Boxers Fit: Question Mark Over Fitness of Government Itself

Rathore’s challenge was ill-timed. He should have also known that the information and broadcasting portfolio he recently took independent charge of is jinxed. I&B ministers invariably land in trouble....

May 23, 2018
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Economy, Fossil Fuel

Indian Economy on a Slippery Oil Slope: Centre Must Give up Part of Bounty Collected through Duty

It is appalling to see the authorities openly stating that the time had not come to cut excise duty as global crude prices had not reached that high. Embarrassingly,...

May 23, 2018
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Industry, Science & Technology

Artificial Intelligence to Trigger Second Industrial Revolution

Technology optimists do not deny that automation will prove disruptive in the short run. They point out, however, that historically periods of rapid technological change have created more jobs...

May 22, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Christians Dressed in Crusade Mail

No names have been taken, neither that of man nor party, in the Archbishop’s letter. But the Church’s David versus Goliath slingshot is aimed at the Modi government. That...

May 22, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Worry for NDA as Modi-Shah Duo no Longer Unassailable: Congress-JD(S) Victory in Karnataka Galvanises Opposition

The contest in Karnataka, the BJP apparently thought that a barnstorming campaign by Modi would be enough to enable the party to sail through. That it nevertheless had slight...

May 22, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Indian Stability Innovations get Global Recognition

The result of a global research and crowdsourcing effort, the Atlas features more than sixty innovations from around the world that help individuals, households, communities, and countries continue to...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

G-String Holding the Alliance Together: Congress Slowly Getting Back to Centre of Action

Opposition unity has still a long way to go, blighted as it is by individual personal ambitions. There are wheels within wheels in the opposition. And when Rahul Gandhi...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Constitutional Crisis Post-Karnataka Election Results: Supreme Court has set Precedence

Much has been written about the significance of the Karnataka developments for the wider Indian politics, and whether it signifies the coming together of the major opposition parties to...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Ominous Silence of Advani on Karnataka Crisis: BJP Patriarch Must be Regretting Backing Modi

Advani’s friends and well-wishers describe him as a real statesman, it is doubtful whether he could be accorded with this salutation. None of his actions in recent times, precisely...

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