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The other Commonwealth
India should foster links with the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) to give it an even more diverse, democratic and Asian identity. The Commonwealth...
India’s bridge to the Lusophone world
India should create the Goa Forum to institutionalise its growing economic and cultural interactions with its Lusophone partners. In 2003 the Chinese government...
Non Relevant Indians
Why should an NRI become the least relevant of all Indians? Diaspora: the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland We...
EU-India Free Trade Agreement brooks no delay
The UPA government should push for the EU-India FTA with the same purposiveness it displayed on the civil nuclear agreement with the US and permitting FDI in multi-brand...
Riding the rupee tiger
Have we tamed the animal that is the rupee-dollar exchange rate? The arrival of a new RBI governor seems to have clicked with the markets – stocks are up to near-all-time-highs,...
A concerned honest civil servant wonders now
The biggest governance challenge for a new government will be re-creating the legitimate space for executive action. This Mint article is an interesting portrayal...
Fiscal Discipline in the States
Issues in measurement and use as a policy instrument. Even as the concerns are mounting about the Union government’s competence in managing public finances and...
Urbanisation in India
If you go by the data released following Census 2011, India still lives in its villages. Only about 31 percent of India’s population lives in what are classified...
The consolation of a ‘usual riot’
Dismissing Kishtwar riots as another ‘usual riot’ makes us blind towards the far-reaching implications of such riots in a state like Jammu and Kashmir. The...
The dead Ordinance
The constitutional issues around the ‘Convicted MPs’ Bill would have led to its dismissal by the Supreme Court. The Union Cabinet has decided to withdraw...
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