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Robbery is not right 27 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
The ‘rights-based approach to development’ is immoral and illiberal Why was there ideological collusion in the passage of a bill that promises ‘food security’ but is certain to severely undermine Ind...
How the government will keep its entitlement commitments 22 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
You won’t like any of them No one really knows how much the Food Security Bill (or Act, if it becomes law) will cost the exchequer. Given the way the legislation is framed, it is impossible to make a...
Book chapter: On humanitarian intervention & democracy promotion 19 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
India’s middle path I have contributed one chapter in “Shaping the Emerging World - India and the Multilateral Order“, a book edited by WPS Sidhu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Bruce Jones, and published by...
Three thoughts on Independence Day 15 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
On social trust, on leaving welfare to society and on the problem of identity-based parochialism For quiet contemplation on Independence Day—how distrusting fellow Indians and institutions is costing...
This road will take you 14 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
To Takshashila! The following poem is an excerpt from Rahul Soni’s translation of 21 poems from Magadh, by Shrikant Verma NALANDA I am going to Takshashila Where are you going? To Nalanda But t...
A little less conversation, a little more action 7 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
Nawaz Sharif must provide credible proof of his intent before New Delhi resumes dialogue with his government While India’s response to the killing of Indian soldiers in the Poonch region along the Li...
Would you like your own new state? 5 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
The complicated business of India’s internal boundaries At least two generations of Indians have grown up taking India’s internal boundaries—drawn based on linguistic logic—for granted. As a colleagu...
Redistribution as theft 2 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
Alleviating poverty requires economic growth alone. It is not often that Indian public discourse seriously discusses big ideas. So it was nice to see, a few days ago, a debate in large sections of th...
It didn’t start in 1988 31 Jul 2013 | 05:42 pm
A brief review of Praveen Swami’s “India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004“, first published in the November 2008 issue of Pragati A retired senior police officer c...
Ad hoc defence 29 Jul 2013 | 04:05 pm
In my Business Standard column today I argue that structural reform of the armed forces is the unfinished business of Kargil: It may appear that the country has been lucky to have escaped without too...
