Aam Aadmi’s missteps
A month after it stormed to power in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party has tarnished its image by taking three false steps. First, its law minister Somnath Bharti and women…
A collaborative media and future shock
The feeding frenzy over Rahul Gandhi’s first ever television interview is yet to end. Every single sound bite and every imaginable angle and contour of the media outing of the…
Battle of ideas
The ideological battle lines drawn in the aftermath of Pakistan’s creation continue to haunt us even today. One recent example of this came when needless fuss was kicked up over…
The feel-good factor
What makes countries tick and sustain high growth rates? Conventional wisdom and experience could never have predicted an economy with a heavy footprint of government (China) to grow at double-digit…
Curse of corruption
Criminals and terrorists evade detection, arrest and punishment by easily operating across international borders, taking full advantage of the reluctance of law-enforcement authorities to engage in complicated and expensive transnational…
Deweaponising Karachi
The Rangers-led ‘targeted operation’ to restore peace to the city under the direction of the Sindh government commenced on a low-key level – a number of ‘suspects’ taken into…
China’s economic modernisation Role of Confucian values
Since the last three decade China has made stupendous progress in economic modernisation. With a remarkable GDP growth of nearly 9-10 percent and foreign exchange reserves of $3 trillion, it…
Do we need another Keynes?
The August 30 edition of this newspaper contained an article by Dr Asad Zaman, in which he sheds light on the ideas of Adam Smith, Keynes and the financial crisis.…
Growth vs development
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University in New York, isn’t known for modesty or patience towards his critics. In 2004, he got a chair in Indian political…
Open up
We know too little about how our government functions or what it determines for us – quite often without our knowledge or consent. One of the areas into which authorities…
