A government that confuses PowerPoints for policy is delaying structural change too much.
Arvind Kejriwal's challenge is unlikely to even cause Narendra Modi to change his schedule. The only person it will embarrass, likely, is Kejriwal, says Mihir S Sharma
'If the BCCI's coffers are inundated with funds today, much of the credit must go to Jagmohan Dalmiya.'
China's slowing means commodity markets are no longer overheated.
Rather than talking about Khajuraho and Shikhandi, the argument should be about a Constitution that promised rights to all, says Mihir S Sharma
Ronit Roy talks about the second season of Adaalat and his upcoming Hollywood and Bollywood projects.
The city is becoming more democratic as the past embraces the future says Rahul Jacob.
'If you question the police you become an anti-national and that is ridiculous.' 'Either you say we live by the Constitution or you say the State will not follow the Constitution.'
'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' -- breaking the myth that 'affordability' and 'excellence' cannot go together -- is indeed possible!' says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, in this fascinating feature.
Narendra Modi is no reformist, but here's how he could yet change the path India's economy.
The Rs 56,000-crore (Rs 560 billion) Adani Group on Monday received a major blow from the Gujarat High Court, which ordered a shutdown of 12 units in Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), located in Mundra, Kutch district, with immediate effect.
Contrary to the bragging that marked its two-year anniversary, the government's timidity on reform is simply astounding.
Mr Modi must stop talking, and start writing
Thanks to rupee depreciation, India has a chance to fundamentally rework its stifled manufacturing sector.
Who will make the most of the disruptions of 2016 this year? Mihir Sharma's list of probables.
India can become a better place to do business only when exports begin to boom.
It is time to reset expectations as government will move with alacrity on social policy, not on economic reforms.
Compromise, constitutionality, pragmatism and self-respect. These were Mandela's leadership virtues. For countries such as India and South Africa, these are the qualities leaders must have, says Mihir S Sharma
Government's reforms are too half-hearted. But Rahul Gandhi's Congress is too amateurish and inept to hold it to account.
Politicians are supposed to get into the business to change the world around them. But it seems Gandhi got into the business to help keep a party running, says Mihir S Sharma
It is time for Mr Modi to be a little more reasonable and rational.
If this election is about Narendra Modi, then it is also about the RSS, notes Mihir S Sharma.
Even in this season of political-peeing-on-lampposts, Rahul Gandhi's statement takes the cake (with due apologies to another astute observer of poverty, the much late Mary Antoinette).
Instead of repealing Section 295A of the IPC, which criminalises speech that offends the religious, India intends to further criminalise offence against religion, says Mihir S Sharma
The media has given the PM and his government a far easier time than it probably deserves.
Mihir S Sharma on the false opposition being created between 'governance' and 'vote bank politics'.
Instead, increases in foreign-direct-investment levels; and reforms to make labour, land and capital more mobile.
Rahul Gandhi thinks his imaginary Congress is the silver bullet; Narendra Modi thinks he himself is the silver bullet; Arvind Kejriwal seems to think that neighbourhood councils are a silver bullet. But none of them is right, says Mihir S Sharma.
The current draft of the Goods and Services Tax could kill any hope of economic revival - and you should blame the Congress if it rolls over and lets it pass, says Mihir S Sharma.
We're behaving like frogs in warm water. We swim around untroubled, cooled by our faith in Indian liberal democracy. We are blind to the bubbles popping around us, the bubbles warning of fundamental changes, says Mihir S Sharma.
If I were the BJP, I would not be celebrating quite so quickly. It can sweep its heartland in 2014, as it has shown it can do, but that heartland isn't quite big enough. And it can put up a good fight in towns and cities, too - but unless it neutralises AAP or similar political entrepreneurs, it may find itself tantalisingly short, just as has happened to it in Delhi, says Mihir Sharma.
IPL Action VIII: These players went unsold
A summary of the day's play in the Ranji Trophy matches at various venues across the country.
Prem Panicker, a keen follower of the game and one of cricket's finest writers, analysed, debated and dissected the four semi-finalists on the Rediff World Cup Chat on Monday.
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