Exciting little discovery
Compact Sedans are not meant to be exciting. Or are they? It has become rather fashionable to blame former Finance Minister P Chidambaram for a lot of things. But one thing that those of us who write about cars can rightly accuse Chidambaram of is having inadvertently given birth to the...
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A ban too late
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Police academy lessons
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Enable the new education policy
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Sops needed to boost spending
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Learn from the world
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Civil flying
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JD(U) war or peace?
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Wrong person at wrong time
Nehru made a wrong choice of making Menon Defence Minister. Though the trauma of the 1962 war remains, many things have changed. The CDS should help in neutralising threats India’s controversial Defence Minister VK Krishna Menon was recently in the news, courtesy a well-researched book, which did not elaborate enough on...
Fix the fault lines in healthcare system
Let the 2020 Union Budget and the decade ahead turn out to be in the larger interest of healthcare, making it more accessible to all, affordable and patient-friendly The growing disease burden should compel the country’s policymakers to allocate a fair chunk of funds for public healthcare infrastructure. The recent news...
Prepare for a different world
Any education system ‘in tune’ with the current time or worse, the past, is actually ‘out of tune’ with the future which will be radically diverse Along with the winter season, Delhi witnesses yet another season. This is the period where you can see adults getting ready for school while their...
Sugarcoat the Budget
The Union Budget will be bold and different. It has to be, because it’s a do-or-die situation for the Government which has to course correct all that ails the economy Expectations ride high on Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman’s second Union Budget to revive the feel-good factor, which has been missing...
The road builder
Nitin Gadkari wants to leave a legacy as the Expressway man. But can he go beyond doing just that? Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will always be remembered as the architect of the Golden Quadrilateral, the series of modern highways that connected the four corners of the country. But his...
Shaheen Bagh, again
The BJP is weaponising protests to fan hypernationalism in the hope of diluting AAP’s record of performance So far, the women-led protest at Shaheen Bagh against the Government’s citizenship and identity policies has been an example of civil society’s spontaneous combustion. But now its sincerity of purpose has lost out to...
Mixed bag of achievements
The Modi Government must be complimented for taking hefty decisions on the defence front. Yet, the truth is that its focus has been on symbolism and politicising the military The format of the Republic Day parade is still evolving in finding the right balance between displaying military prowess, cultural heritage, technological...
