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Sandeep Bamzai is a media professional of standing and repute having held editorial leadership positions right through his 32 year career. Visiting Fellow at think tank ORF, he is currently writing a book for Harper Collins on the Role of the Indian Pri
A whole year of savings on imported oil and other commodities and consequent low inflation has gone by without any transformative decision making
Read MoreIf India is to remain insulated from global volatility and currency fluctuations, then it has to build a moat around itself and act independently. Let us not obsess over legislation anymore
Read MoreWhile untangling of knots left behind by the UPA has taken its toll, but the time has come for the Modi Government to show resolve, stomach and steel to go in for metamorphic reforms
Read MoreThe catatonic state of our road and highway network needs an urgent dose of an alchemic preparation to revitalise it. Given the state of disarray and disrepair that the UPA left the NHAI in, it requires significant attention to mend things
Read MoreAs we know nothing has really changed and foreign investment continues to find impediments and imponderables strewn in its path as it ventures into India
Read MoreIndia has to try and achieve scaling up of renewable energy prospects from the current 12 to 29 per cent and scaling down coal usage for electricity from 61 to 57 per cent over the next decade. A herculean task with many billions of dollars required for investment.
Read MoreTo challenge a High Court summons with bravado and derring do is a huge judgmental error and to blame it as political vendetta on the BJP is nothing but science fiction. Unless the Congress and its sharp shooters prove this decisively, empirical evidence goes against it completely
Read MoreRampant urbanisation and unceasing waves of mass migration are putting enormous pressure on already creaking civic infrastructure in urban agglomerates. Ignoring this dangerous trendily is being done at our own peril
Read MoreThe second quarter GDP numbers are better - 7.4 per cent - sequentially than the June quarter of 7 per cent, but still below par. The trajectory fortunately is northwards again and this is a good sign
Read MoreEvery time sporting relations between the two nations are normalised, the fires are stoked in this debate. It gets ugly, people get nasty and words are exchanged.
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