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Why Politics is out of reach for the Aam Aadmi

'Deep pockets have become a prerequisite for contesting elections on a major party symbol in most states.''Given the premium parties place on self-financing candidates, once you have accounted for......

'India is the swing superpower of the 21st century'

'If India maintains the Constitutional set-up that its founders envisaged -- which is that it is a parliamentary democracy, with a broadly speaking market economy, in which all people are equal as......

'Very, very hard for Modi to return with a comparably large majority'

'Most likely scenario is Modi comes back with either a much smaller majority and no majority at all and a coalition.''Very hard to imagine him doing better than he did last time.''He will then be a......

King of good times just refused to grow up

'As he goes down, he will almost certainly drag a few others down with him.''Once the mutual mudslinging has died down, collateral damage will probably include more bankers than politicians, given......

Billionaires have always called the shots in India

'James Crabtree ignores the emergence of a nexus between business and politics going back to the 1920s and talks of it as a new child of 21st century India,' says Shivanand Kanavi. IMAGE: Vijay......

Of Modi, Trump and the rise of crony populism

India’s real risk is not that crony populism would fail, but that it would succeed, consolidating a path that is fundamentally a trap, both in terms of social inequalities and long-term......

'The system is holding Indians back'

'I went to slums in India which were quite destitute, where people were clearly really struggling, but typically there is a sort of sense of purpose.''People are hustling.''What that tells you is......

'Mallya is a phenomenal character'

'The three tycoons I deal with in the first chapter -- Ambani, Mallya and Adani -- in their own way represent the change that has come over India.''Of the three of them, Mallya is the most fun. He......

Bad Boy Billionaires Review

The Bad Boy Billionaires series has a lot in common: The three billionaires' hefty ambition, dangerous arrogance and untrammeled power, observes Dhruv Munjal. Perhaps it was only fitting that a......

India, Merchant-Ivory and the Oscars

Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End.She kept her distance from the film......

'Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is simply a genius'

Aseem Chhabra remembers Oscar-winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who together with filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, brought many a quiet, gentle tale to life. The late Ismail......

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James Crabtree

News for James Crabtree

Why Politics is out of reach for the Aam Aadmi

'India is the swing superpower of the 21st century'

'Very, very hard for Modi to return with a comparably large majority'

King of good times just refused to grow up

Billionaires have always called the shots in India

Of Modi, Trump and the rise of crony populism

'The system is holding Indians back'

'Mallya is a phenomenal character'

Bad Boy Billionaires Review

India, Merchant-Ivory and the Oscars

'Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is simply a genius'

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