During these seven decades, the IAF has lost 2,374 aircraft to crashes. They include 1,126 fighters and 1,248 non-combat aircraft. In addition, 229 trainers and 196 helicopters have crashed. These crashes have resulted in the deaths of 1,305 skilled pilots, note Ajai Shukla and Devesh Kapur.
If the Modi government is to keep its promise of change, it must bring in fresh faces.
The new government has to make conscious efforts to rebuild social equality and bring the people together.
'Just how strong were the ties between the world's largest and oldest democracies that an incident involving a diplomat and a maid led to anger threatening the relationship itself? Or had the relationship been weakening in the past few years, masked by the empty symbolism of State dinners, asks Devesh Kapur.
The race for VIP perks has pernicious consequences and is undermining the elite's authority
Tripura's popular chief minister shows up the failures of the elitist central leadership of India's Left, says Devesh Kapur
Very high tax rates can make states turn from extractive to rapacious, and in the process killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
The government is internationalising Indian higher education in quite the wrong way, says Devesh Kapur
India is less violent, privately and publicly, than ever before, says Devesh Kapur
India is more vulnerable than it appears. Most of what RBI calls remittances could be disguised capital flows.
The current Euro-Atlantic Monetary Fund must become an International Monetary Fund.
In the face of failed poverty reduction programmes, the govt. should implement cash transfer scheme to alleviate poverty in India.
The Indian public is not naive and indeed demonstrates a streak of hard realism in its judgments about the US.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia's suggestion should be slightly modified for this.
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