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Could India be heading for a short war with China?

'The numbers of troops on both sides are enormous.''They are about 50,000-60,000 soldiers facing each other in that sector -- that's about the total number of troops that both sides had in the 1962......

What Modi can learn from Singapore's Lee

'Lee Kuan Yew told me he used to look to India, especially the writings of Nehru and Sardar Panikkar, for guidance on governance.''It's ironic that India should have so much to learn of the spirit......

What if India banned Chinese restaurants...

China will flood direct flights to India with wholesale takeaways of the authentic stuff; Indian businessmen will fight for the commission and the consumers for the cuisine, predicts Sunanda K......

The tragedy of Indian workers abroad

'This country's backwardness is exposed when Indians bribe, coax and cajole agents to get back-breaking jobs abroad to save a little money at home,' observes Sunanda K Datta-Ray. IMAGE: A migrant......

'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......

What I got when I flew Air India for Rs 169,613

Even a rump Air India could not hope to get away with the shoddy service and scrappy fare for which I paid nearly two lakh, complains Sunanda K Datta-Ray. It's unfashionable now to endorse......

Will Ravneet Gill manage to 'save' Yes Bank?

Enjoying the backing of the regulator, Gill has identified the core problems, ring-fenced the banks from “influencers” and is in the process of building a new team.Now, he needs to play......

'By 2025, we will be corruption free'

'I feel now we have a leader who is non-corruptible.''But he needs time as corruption is deep-rooted in our society, and people have no shame about being corrupt.''It will take at least 7 years to......

The Chaos Theory Guy

'Look at Mr Modi. He is a part of this new middle class.''India has never before seen this kind of social mobility, certainly not since medieval times.''As a result, India's entrenched elite, which......

The investor who took a $1.1billion bet on Modi

The IIT-Madras alumnus, Prem Watsa, who moved to Canada for an MBA programme and settled there, is not new to investing in India. Image: Prem Watsa’s track record is rather impressive.......

We Indians changed our colours, just for the day!

'Amazingly, along with the yellow army, there was still a huge number of desis, who had flown in from various parts of the world.' 'No, we didn't sell our tickets -- we just changed our colours,......

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