Scrutators

Such has been the disastrous pollution in Delhi and its environs in recent days. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal , driven to desperation, announced  that schools in the city would be closed temporarily to prevent serious damage to the health...

Scrutators

Bangalore was India’s pride, Bangaluru, as the city is now called, is India’s shame. The orgy of violence witnessed last week, of blazing buses and buildings will be etched in the public memory for decades, a benchmark of horror never to be...

It was the scam of scams: Following a complaint by the Punjab National Bank (PNB), the Enforcement Directorate seized assets worth Rs5,100 crore during its extensive searches of jeweller Nirav Modi’s firms across five Indian States, including...

The recent rise in jihadi terror attacks in Kashmir would appear to suggest that Pakistan is raising the stakes in it unconventional war against India.

The gloves were off in Karnataka. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing an election rally in Bangaluru, accused the Congress State government of ‘ease of doing murder’ instead of ‘ease of doing business.’ The tenor of the speech sounded anything...

Mani Shankar Aiyer, once a high flying Congress minister in Delhi, is now an aging octogenarian with little to say that makes sense. Asked about the forthcoming coronation of Rahul Gandhi as Congress Party President in succession to his mother...

November 26, 2017 was the ninth anniversary of the Pakistan-based terrorist attack on Mumbai, India’s financial hub. The jihadi unit came by sea from Karachi and launched their premeditated assault on targeted sites, including the railway station,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in fine fettle at the ASEAN Summit in Manila. His meeting with US President Donald Trump went off well. Highlighting India’s role in the Asia Pacific region, the Premier, addressed the Indian diaspora, referred...

Demonetization and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) have led to customary abuse of chare and counter-charge between the BJP-led government and the opposition Congress party. When there is more heat than light truth is the likely casualty. A...

The papers got their front-page lead stories right: India has leapt 30 places on the World Bank’s list on ‘ease of doing business,’ in just a year, from 130 to 100. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley looked pleased, as well he might, but said there...

Indian political theatre is never more than a sustained brawl. It makes television a living hell of cacophonic voices, including anchors prone to putting long winded questions to discussants, and then providing equally long-winded answers. The...



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