It’s the victim of twin betrayals: by the Church privileging material wealth over its core spiritual calling, and by the Communists, of its core constituency, the poor. Behind the failure to respect expert advice on protecting fragile ecosystems is greed.
Geostrategic as well as techno-economic imperatives call for companies that have competence in cutting edge technologies, and the private sector shows no appetite for building such competence.
Kerala’s Muslim radicals are raising divisive demands and, amid opportunist silence on the part of the Communist and Congress parties, strengthening BJP in the state.
Chinese imports are cheap, thanks to an industrial policy that aims to smother all rivals. They threaten India with industrial infanticide. Will the Budget forge a strong defence against this danger?
No one expects the Budget to be divorced from politics, but no one expects it to be suffused with politics so far away from the next general elections either.
Microsoft will best understand the vulnerability of every chunk of its code, and can devise ways to guard it; if that means transforming it into a giant cyber security firm, so be it.