'Maximum utterance, minimum governance'

'A foot-in-mouth disorder seems to grip the government, and is growing chronic by the day,' says Sunil Sethi. It's another exultant week overseas in the life of the prime minister. But as he moves......

'You are in a crisis. You need to do things quickly'

'Unless we change and we see a change in the direction we are taking, times can only get worse.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com "I find in many of the schemes the government has, it is......

When corporations capture the state

The danger of a corporate capture of government isn't imaginary, and corporations represent narrow profit-seeking interests of businessmen whose forte is not Constitutional values, says Praful......

India's premier pays lip service to villagers

India's dusty villages or the green ones keep coming back into the conversations of the well-heeled in India. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while giving the inaugural speech at a leadership summit......