Reforms during the time of crisis
Mukul G Asher & V Anantha Nageswaran THE GOVERNMENT to be formed after the coming general elections in India will face serious economic challenges, which if...
Start by burying Lord Ismay
Nitin Pai TO FIGURE out what it needs to do with regard to national security, the new central government only has to call for the Kargil Review Committee (KRC)...
Liberalise education
Atanu Dey NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING economist Douglass North observed that “economic history is overwhelmingly a story of economies that failed to produce a set of...
Vote!
Barun Mitra IN THE aftermath of the terrorist strike in Mumbai in November 2008, many people expressed their anger and frustration at the political leadership....
Institutions and votebanks
Changing policy needs new institutions Aadisht THE PERCY Mistry report and Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists both mention the importance of institutional or...
Reconnecting with Iran
Rohan Joshi INDIA-IRAN RELATIONS have come a long way since they were forged at the Asian Relations Conference in New Delhi in 1947. Since then, the relationship...
Fourteen centuries later
Mishi Saran IF IT hadn’t been for the vagaries of a wandering life, Mishi Saran tells us at the outset of Chasing the Monk’s Shadow, she would not have written...


