Cordel Church Scam: Judicial Corruption
In our earlier report “Cordel Church Scam: Another Can of Worms?” dated 28th of April 2017, we had exposed a mega scam from Cordel Church, Mangaluru, Karnataka, which had shaken the conscience of the Christian More...
Judgement Day: Tales From The Judicial Chambers
Sometime in the year 1997, Metropolitan Magistrate Santushti Chauhan (name changed) committed an act that will forever be a blot on her mostly exemplary career. Arriving for work around 8.30am at Delhi’s Tis Hazari More...
Teaching And Research – The Rot That Has Set In
Recently HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar stoked a controversy by saying that college teachers and professors would no longer be ‘assessed on research for promotion’. He said that they would be assessed ‘mainly More...
The political economy of demonetisation
Demonetisation was a brave policy to implement and risky. But then serious policy measures entail risk and India’s political culture is normally risk averse. As a result, it allows consequential missteps already More...
Demonetisation – A Dharmic Perspective
Demonetisation is the reneging by a government of its promissory undertaking in regard to currency. The recent scrapping of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes is not demonetisation because the government still promises More...
The poor in India will lead the Digital Revolution – here’s why
Popular articles about the poor in India, paint a dismal picture of ignorance, illiteracy and hopelessness. This language starts with the international media and percolates down to even local newspapers, which would More...
Effects of Demonetisation: A Brief review
Demonetisation has been the biggest economic measure that India has seen post-Independence. It has caused and will result in many social, political and economic effects. Some people criticised the move in the beginning More...
Demonetization: The Ultimate Weapon against Black economy
The black money is a much bigger problem than what appears to it. It provides a fertile ground for all the anti-social and anti-national activities like illicit drug menace, prostitution rackets, human trafficking, More...
Demonetization-The Major Reset In India
Through notification on November 8th, 2016, all currency notes of the denomination of INR 500 (approx USD7) and INR 1,000 (approx USD15) have been demonetized by Central Government of India. Those currency notes More...
Decoding the Aam Aadmi Party
By any reckoning, Arvind Kejriwal’s rise is astounding. One year in politics, and he is chief minister of the Delhi state. As I mentioned in an earlier article, he has blasted many a myth about Indian politics More...