'If you get scared of cartoonists, how will you work?'

'Let Modi not be in the news, I will stop making cartoons on him.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi addresses the nation, June 7, 2021. Photograph: ANI Photo   Cartoonist Manjul......

Ramdev wants a ban; will he succeed?

'The wonderful thing about being a journalist is that when someone tries to muzzle your work, it's a badge of honour.''You know you've done something right,' Priyanka Pathak-Narain, the author of......

The one thing Chidambaram is terrified of

P Chidambaramwatches my waddling progress from the gate of 19, Safdarjung Road in Delhi to his sitting room and asks how I had come. "On my scooter," I say, panting ever so slightly. "It's parked......

Very tough times lie ahead for next govt

'The new government will have to contend with slowing economic growth, weak private investment, anaemic exports and vulnerable external imbalances, a stressed financial system, mounting fiscal......

Three game-changing ideas that India ever had in past 50 years

Despite our overly loud public adherence to democracy, political parties and their leaders appear to treat its accoutrements as necessary evils to be tolerated in their quest for power,......

How fast is India growing?

It is necessary and worthwhile to restore credibility to India's national income and growth estimates, rues Shankar Acharya How fast is the Indian economy growing? What is the sectoral composition......

Budget not excellent but just above average

The Budget has done a reasonably good job of accommodating the major restructuring of central government transfers to states mandated by the 14th Finance Commission, notes Shankar Acharya On......