FREEBIES can enable politicians to win
elections. But they will make them lose a nation.If the politics of loan
waivers, higher minimum support prices for foodgrains, and unemployment dole
(read MGNREGA) for rural folks continue, there will non-engineered strife in
the country. Freebies may work for a time – they have worked for seven decades
now – but in the end they will invariably lead to socio-economic disasters.
January 22, 2019
Eyes Wide Shut : A Kafkaesque trial in our times
IN March 2013, a concerned group of ex-bureaucrats, including some former cabinet secretaries, met then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to advocate for urgent amendment to the incongruous provision (Section 13 1 d iii) in the Prevention of Corruption Act. The amendments providing some clarity to the corruption law were ultimately carried out five years later in August 2018.
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Corruption : From Raj to Rafale 5 – The Mundhra case
IT started with a follow-up question that politicians ask after a newspaper or news channel report. On September 4, 1957, a Lok Sabha member of the ruling Congress regime, Ram Subhag Singh, referred to an article that appeared in The Statesman a month ago, and asked Finance Minister Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari (TTK) for details.
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Cover Story : Farmer Crisis Waiting to explode
There is a huge crisis in agriculture. It has remained so for seven decades. The ticking bomb is about to explode. It’s time to stop the suicides, prevent farmers from throwing their produce on the streets, and prevent migration to the cities. In fact, it is time to reverse all that we have done in the agriculture sector since 1947.
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