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The Narendra Modi government has been hauled over the coals for the 23.9% drop in GDP in the April-June quarter

The fallacy of equating growth with the pursuit of higher GDP

4 min read . Updated: 27 Oct 2020

The impact of TRP ratings on India’s television industry is yet to be documented or studied.

The rot in our electronic media runs deeper than rigged ratings

4 min read . Updated: 13 Oct 2020

Karl Marx. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Marx misread capitalism but we must not fall into the same trap

4 min read . Updated: 06 Oct 2020

There’s a flip side to Vodafone’s case of ‘retrospective’ taxation

4 min read . Updated: 29 Sep 2020

We should review our approach to curbs placed on free speech

4 min read . Updated: 22 Sep 2020

Rupee becomes the worst performing currency among Asian basket as foreigners continued selling domestic equity and debt. Photo: Mint

A neglected X-factor that lies at the core of our economic stasis

4 min read . Updated: 15 Sep 2020

Liberals must share much of the blame for a US at war with itself

4 min read . Updated: 08 Sep 2020

Indian Army trucks move towards Ladakh amid LAC border tension, somewhere in Himachal Pradesh (Photo: PTI)

India must exercise hard power in response to Chinese hostility

4 min read . Updated: 01 Sep 2020

The number of non-profits is rising dramatically because of a huge unmet demand for public goods and services

Prepare for the irreversible rise of non-profit activity everywhere

4 min read . Updated: 25 Aug 2020

The request for an NOC from one agency often led to the need for a couple of more NOCs from yet other agencies (Photo: iStock)

India’s bureaucratic ‘killer apps’ that businesses would like axed

4 min read . Updated: 18 Aug 2020

Mumbai: A polling official applies indelible ink on the finger of a voter at a polling station during voting for Maharashtra Assembly elections, in Mumbai, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. (PTI Photo/Shashank Parade) (PTI10_21_2019_000117A) (PTI)

Capitalism and democracy seem to be at odds across today’s world

4 min read . Updated: 11 Aug 2020

Opinion | Top-heavy governance might be well past its expiry date already

4 min read . Updated: 04 Aug 2020

The Narendra Modi government has given a fresh push to the long-pending proposal to set up the new service to have a separate cadre for lower judiciary in the country. Photo: iStock

Opinion | The court has an opportunity to lay down the limits of contempt

4 min read . Updated: 28 Jul 2020

HUL announced that it will drop the word fair from its skincare product Fair and Lovely (Photro: Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

Opinion | Wokeness isn’t an attribute that businesses need to bandy about

4 min read . Updated: 21 Jul 2020

Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram (Photo: Reuters)

Opinion | We must resolve our muddled approach to temple autonomy

4 min read . Updated: 14 Jul 2020

Opinion | Our government holds the lock but not keys to a self-reliant India

4 min read . Updated: 07 Jul 2020

Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Opinion | Oil product levies should be like sin taxes on tobacco and liquor

4 min read . Updated: 30 Jun 2020

Critics of the Modi foreign policy blame his personalized style of diplomacy, but it would be a mistake to think that personal equations do not matter in international relations

Opinion | India is grossly underinvested in studying its friends and foes

4 min read . Updated: 23 Jun 2020

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Photo: Mint)

Opinion | The case for a second budget and switch to a new fiscal year

4 min read . Updated: 17 Jun 2020

Opinion | Let’s not rush to judgement on the country’s corona response

4 min read . Updated: 10 Jun 2020

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