Opinion: Foreign Campuses In India - Storm In A Teacup
Anurag Mehra | Friday February 03, 2023Only a slavish, colonial mentality can suggest that we turn our Indian institutions into second class "citizens" by promising all kinds of autonomy - operational and academic - only to foreign universities.
Opinion: Gautam Adani Strikes Back. Can He Win The Perception War?
By Andy Mukherjee | Monday January 30, 2023Gautam Adani, the tycoon under attack by a New York-based short-seller, has outdone his accuser 4:1: The rebuttal put out by his group Sunday night in India runs into 413 pages.
Opinion: Uddhav Thackeray And BJP - Talk Of A Re-Up Is Building
Swati Chaturvedi | Friday January 27, 2023Eknath Shinde turned against Uddhav Thackeray in June, forcing the Sena to split.
Opinion: Slowdown Hits India's Notoriously Budget-Conscious Consumer
Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday January 24, 2023Manufacturing of wants is hard anywhere for marketers, but the challenge is bigger when the bottom half of the population takes home only 13% of national income.
Blog: #MeToo In Wrestling - It's Not Just About Sports
Jyotsna Mohan Bhargava | Saturday January 21, 2023The country's top wrestlers - Olympic medalists, members of wrestling's first family and those on the cusp of greatness - almost 200 men and women protesting in freezing Delhi, in a fight that goes beyond anything they have faced on the mat.
Opinion: Budget 2023 - What To Expect From PM Modi
Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday January 20, 2023PM Modi's core economic agenda is to promote India as a rival manufacturing destination to China. He has sought to achieve this by incentivizing private factory expenditure and allocating more state resources to infrastructure, particularly rail and road. uncertain global demand and lackluster domestic consumption may keep a lid on private investment. The Indian gov...
Opinion: BJP Makes Its 2024 Plan Clear - Modi, Modi, Modi
Swati Chaturvedi | Thursday January 19, 2023Expect full Modi saturation as he is the medium and the message for 2024.
Opinion: Who Will Govern The Governors?
Derek O'Brien | Wednesday January 18, 2023To ensure the independent functioning of Governors, there is a need to revise Article 157 of the Constitution and pinpoint more specific criteria and qualifications for the appointment of Governors.
Opinion: Does PM Modi's "One Earth, One Family" Slogan Apply To India?
Rajmohan Gandhi | Monday January 16, 2023As they hear or read these stirring words, the people of the world, as also the people of India, will demand to know whether the Indian family is to be broken up, with some members pushed to a dark basement or a roofless outhouse.
Opinion: News Channels, Chasing TRPs, Ignore The Necessary
Derek O'Brien | Tuesday January 03, 2023In the new year, Television Rating Points (TRPs) should be renamed by media networks. To reflect the content being churned out every evening, the abbreviation could just as easily stand for Third Rate Programming (TRP)!
Opinion: India And China - A 2023 Tale Of Two Markets
By Andy Mukherjee | Tuesday December 27, 2022Compared with a year-and-a-half ago, when its economy had just begun to reopen after a devastating surge of the delta variant, India's stock market is unchanged in dollar terms.
Opinion: Rahul Gandhi's Yatra Is A Landmark. Even If...
Rajmohan Gandhi | Thursday December 22, 2022By openly confronting nafrat, Rahul Gandhi's yatra may have broken the spell of fear. Bharat Jodo has turned out to be an excellent slogan. It is a necessary one, too.
Blog: At Qatar, This Winner Was Not Even Playing
Mohd Asim | Tuesday December 20, 2022The football carnival has ended in Qatar. Messi's Argentina is the FIFA 2022 champion, but the real winner at the biggest sporting show on earth is a country that wasn't even playing. Palestine.
Opinion: The Top 5 Words Of 2022 And What They Reveal About Us
Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Tuesday December 20, 2022In this sense, whether we 'like' these five-fingered offerings or not, they handily indicate that even at our loneliest, we are never quite alone.
Opinion: Compare Messi To Sachin, Not Ronaldo - Keshava Guha
Keshava Guha | Saturday December 17, 2022The Messi-Ronaldo debate is sadly representative of modern football culture.