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A long-expected invasion

Russia has been denied the quick victory it craved and stares at a long and painful period in the global doghouse

India's approaching democratic crisis

In India, we will soon face a variation of this problem, created by the differing demographic, cultural and economic trajectories of various parts of the country

Coal's problems are governance, not climate regulation

In a few short weeks, the world's leaders will gather for the United Nations' 26th Conference on Parties

Three stories make a trend

'Make in India as it stands has been a failure', says the author

A precarious pragmatism

Without the road map that an economic ideology provides, govt's search for practical ways out of specific problems has led it to appear erratic and inconsistent

Seize the initiative on climate change, Mr Modi

'This is the Indian government's duty not just to its own people but to its own notion of developing-world leadership', says the author

Repeating recent history

The poor quality of public health infrastructure should no longer surprise us. It is our democratic choice, writes Mihir S Sharma

Stopping a third wave

Unless public health is prioritised over swift re-opening, the chances are that a third wave will hit India sooner than we would like

Focus on the pandemic, not the economy

The big lesson of the second wave is that India must stop trying to prioritise economic recovery over emergence from the pandemic - any such effort is destined to fail

Five points about the second wave

What do we know about India's devastating second wave, and can we assign responsibility for it?

The Quad might have finally found a mission amid Covid-19 pandemic

The Quad's priority should be the same as the rest of the region's: promoting growth and development that is healthy and less dependent on China

There's no such thing as self-reliance

For sustained growth India needs to use foreign capital and foreign know-how to produce goods that it sells in foreign markets. What's self-reliant in that?

Betting on the public sector

History will judge this Budget based on whether the Centre's big bet on a public sector borrowing-driven growth revival works out

The foreign hand, again

Conspiratorial thinking leads to tyranny. It means you imagine connections between disparate groups of dissenters, and thereby elevate in your mind their danger to the state

Budget bets big on growth: FM squeezes subsidies, raises capex again

Asset sale to get Rs 1.75 trillion; transparent budgeting gets a leg-up

A call to print more money: Economic Survey sees a 'V-shaped recovery'

Forget fiscal conservatism, turn on the fiscal taps, and ignore debt build-up, says Survey

How the republic falls

If you want to understand today's politics, read novels about the fall of Rome. Populism is democracy's oldest and most enduring disease

Budget 2021 must not undermine govt's response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Govt has so far been restrained and sensible in pandemic response. Budget must not throw away that effort

Covid-19: The last thing India needs in 2021 is to repeat disasters of 2020

How we deal with the new strain of coronavirus will show whether we have learnt the right lessons from the initial response to the coronavirus

India's future may depend upon BJP reconciling its absolutist approach

Can the 2020 BJP leadership can, at this late stage, manage to reconcile its absolutist, majoritarian, Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan approach with the coalition dharma of its Vajpayee-era predecessors