Can Modi achieve economic turnaround?
A striking feature of the recent LokSabha polls was that it clearly showed people are unhappy with doles and handouts. The UPA was known for its kindness/generosity towards the poor …
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Demystifying Tibetan culture: Uncle Tompa’s profane adventures
In these 20 stories Rinjing Dorji narrates how Uncle Tompa gets the better of others through his trickery. The ‘others’ here are usually the rich, the foolish, the virtuous, and the stubborn. While tales of Uncle Tompa are very similar to those of other tricksters like the Persian Mullah Nusruddhin, or the American Cayote, Uncle Tompa’s stories differ because of the centrality of sex in his adventures.
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Modi flags off new governance culture, work ethic
Modi means business – India’s new prime minister is determined to live up to his reputation for smart governance by issuing clear instructions to the bureaucracy to fast-track decision-making. Typically, even as he begins to cut the red tape involved in official processes, he has decided to focus on evolving a clean, hygienic environment for the government officials.
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Applying the Gujarat Model: What Modi’s budget will offer
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s first budget in the coming weeks will give some idea of the new direction Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to give the Indian economy. In all …
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Israel, Denmark offer a helping hand to clean up Ganga
The clean-up Ganga project, a long promised plan which has been mired in endless bureaucratic delays and political apathy, looks set to acquire force in days to come. India’s Prime …
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Restoring India-China Reciprocity on the Border
Under the new dispensation of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is necessary to put the India-China border dispute in a correct perspective. Incidentally, 2014 coincides with the centenary of the McMahon line.
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25 years later, China’s 3 responses to Tiananmen: Detention, Denial and Defiance
Since March 2014, Internet search giant Google has begun to run encrypted versions of the search engine in China. Currently, nearly all its users are redirected to the encrypted version …
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Can a writer write himself away?
I remember a friend once asking me on a lazy day in a chickoo orchard, “Do you ever worry that with all the writing you do, you might write yourself …
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Cutting red tape: For green clearances, go online
While there were a plethora of green pledges on the World Environment Day, India flagged off an online platform to fast-track environmental clearances for industrial and infrastructure projects. Several important …
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World Environment Day: An Ode to Beloved Earth That Was….
Everyone had talked about what the end of the world would look like but few had imagined they would live to see it happen. The speculation was now a reality. There was no sun outside and the rain poured down relentlessly. The glaciers in the Arctic Circle were melting fast and no one could predict what will happen after the rains. Was everyone going to die?
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