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'On Beijing, Delhi Will Sleep With One Eye Open'

'New Delhi is not naive about its foreign policy choices.'

Can Narendra Modi's fort be ever breached?

'In India, a really popular and well-entrenched leader is not defeated by a rival.' 'Such a leader has to defeat himself,' observes Shekhar Gupta.

How to fix India's flawed banking system

What was the RBI doing, what was the PNB top management doing, what were the auditors doing, asks Debashis Basu.

Unanswered questions in the Ishrat Jahan case

Any idea why economists don't write autobiographies?

For a bunch that fancies itself so greatly and does not hesitate to express an opinion on everything, this is very odd behaviour, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.

How the #DeepState works: Did the Congress 'steal' the 2004, 2009 polls?

Did we miss the DeepState's Brazil Model in action in India in 2004 and 2009, asks Rajeev Srinivasan.

The time will come when America can dictate to India, and expect to be obeyed

'A plausible American tactic,' Rajeev Srinivasan suspects, 'would be to try and prevent the BJP and Modi from coming to power by splitting the anti-Congress vote using the AAP, and in case that fails, to follow up with a Plan B to make India ungovernable, to create mass conflict through their agents.'