Waqf Act Amendment Bill 2024 is pending in Parliament and expectedly is arousing a lot of heat, sound, fury and much of it is more political posturing and theatrics rather than any significant debate. However, after following the debates on TV and the Press media in the last few days, I could not help reachingContinue reading “The Parliament debate on Waqf Amendment Bill-2024: The sound and the fury!”
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The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?
Prime Minister Modi is in the USA today ! And over the next few days INDIA and USA are expected to sign landmark long-term agreements which will commit the latter to unprecedented defence and trade ties favouring the former. India is said to be on the cusp of a so-called “heralding of a totally newContinue reading “The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?”
In defence of Nobel Prize for Ben Bernanke: Party-pooping in hindsight is unfair!
Both in the stratospherically cerebral worlds of economists and central-bankers as well as in the worldwide social-media (Twitter , WhatsApp and Private email-groups), there’s a lot of trolling, snide Monday-morning quarter-backing and bitchy-sniping going on about Ben Bernanke being awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, 2022. Below are 2 examples – one in social mediaContinue reading “In defence of Nobel Prize for Ben Bernanke: Party-pooping in hindsight is unfair!”
Accidental and Incidental Prime Ministers of India
https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/thirty-years-down-memory-lane-101625081189954-amp.html IN the above “down memory lane walk” article penned, it’s not really clear if P. Chidambaram is paying tributes to PVN, MMS, Montek, to the few other Babu-bureaucrats he deigns to name or is simply tooting his own hoot as an architect — or at least perhaps a “fellow architect”— of the great transitionContinue reading “Accidental and Incidental Prime Ministers of India”