A recurrent theme during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s marathon election campaign was the Pink Revolution and the depletion of the cattle wealth of villages due to subsidised meat exports. Cattle are intrinsic to agriculture and provide a secondary lifeline to marginal farmers, especially in times of distress. Yet the meat … Read More
Narendra Modi Government’s decision to abolish 30 committees of Groups of Ministers (GoMs) and Empowered Groups of Ministers (EGoMs) set up by the Manmohan Singh regime to finalise decisions on a range of issues, has restored the supremacy of the Cabinet in the parliamentary system of Government. The committees, mostly … Read More
Making the first successful move in his campaign promise to recover illegal wealth stashed in havens abroad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue during bilateral talks with the Mauritius Prime Minister at Hyderabad House on Tuesday morning. He was accompanied by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Foreign Secretary … Read More
By coming to New Delhi to grace the oath-taking ceremony of the new Prime Minister, the leaders of our seven neighbouring countries not only recognised India’s re-emergence in the comity of nations after a dark decade in which relations with most nations were grievously vitiated, but helped to power the … Read More
According to an apocryphal story about Chandragupta Maurya, the conqueror’s first attempt to seize the kingdom of Magadha failed. Wandering in disguise one night, he came across a mother scolding her son for chewing his bread from the middle. “Eat the outer sides first and then move to the centre … Read More
As the beleaguered Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her family brace themselves to face life without power, with the party seeking a change in leadership and the nation demanding greater scrutiny of the affairs of a family that presided over one of the most corrupt regimes in independent India, Priyanka … Read More
Outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who effectively bowed out of office on January 3 when he announced, at his last press conference, that he would not be seeking a third term in office, officially submitted his resignation to President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday afternoon, after the verdict in the 2014 … Read More
The expected unbelievable has happened – Narendra Modi has led the nation to its greatest grassroots revolution since the sun set on one-party dominance in 1977. Taking on the Congress dynastic rule with Sonia Gandhi ruling from behind the scenes, and particularly the misgovernance, corruption, and economic stagnation of the … Read More
Was the ‘Aman ki Asha’ dialogue with Kashmiri separatists and peaceniks in India, which was promoted by Pakistan’s Jang Group of newspapers in concert with a leading Indian newspaper group, a covert Track II gambit by the Pakistan Government and the ubiquitous ISI, or did the latter two merely support … Read More
Narendra Modi’s stunning outreach to political parties that refused to join the NDA coalition, first broadly hinted at in a television interview on May 9, and reiterated on May 12 after the near unanimity among pollsters and analysts of a certain BJP victory, reflects his sagacity and farsightedness. The development … Read More
