The men behind Rahul 2.0

His office and staff have been revamped after the Congress’s electoral defeat in 2014, reports Kavita Chowdhury Rahul Gandhi’s office and staff have been revamped after the......

UCC Can Wait, Personal Law Reforms Can't

Crucial reforms in Muslim personal law, especially laws related to inheritance and adoption, need to be initiated forthwith; historically speaking, without the State's backing, hardly has any......

The Politics Of The Bharat Ratna

Most politicians and even non-politicians have been honoured because of what they were purported to be electorally worth for the ruling party of their time, argues N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE:......

Manmohan's advice for Modi: 'No free market without freedom'

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday stepped into the raging debate on intolerance by condemning the murders of dissenters and some on the basis of what they eat and said the nation is......

India's real economic freedom index

As a co-author of the Economic Freedom for the States of India index (which rated Gujarat as the top state on the index in March this year), I have been mutely witnessing the great tamasha that a......

Bibek Debroy joins as full time member of NITI Aayog

Noted economist Bibek Debroy on Wednesday assumed charged as full time member of the NITI Ayog National Institution for Transforming India. Government had announced the appointment of Debroy and......

Bibek Debroy: A Guru I Could Look To

Bibek Debroy was one of the very few economists not bound by any single area of expertise and was simultaneously curious about economics and politics, myths and maths, chess and chemistry, and what......

Even NITI Aayog members are clueless about its role

Bibek Debroy had raised seven questions about the new institution. As the head of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Bibek Debroy had ranked Gujarat the top state in terms of......