Key Lessons for India from Global Anti-Immigrant Sentiments
Around the rich world, immigration has become a lightning rod for public anger over crime, rising prices and seeming erosion of cultural integrity.
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
From Adani to SEBI: Congress’ Critique and Impact on India’s Institutional Trust
TK Arun Be it on issues of Ambani, Adani or row over SEBI chief, Congress, while attacking Centre, must be mindful of integrity of nation’s institutions and agencies that drive its prosperity. The Congress party’s recent moves beg the question:…
Nationalist Entrepreneurship and State Resistance: The Rise and Fall of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company
VO Chidambaram Pillai is not a household name. He comes up rarely in any list of the heroes of India’s freedom movement. He deserves better. From Tuticorin, a coastal town in southern Tamil Nadu, he promoted, raised funds for, and ran, Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company (SSNCo), to take on the might of the British India Steam Navigation Company, and of the British empire itself. And failed. And that failure illustrates what happens if you are the antithesis of the much-reviled crony capitalist.
Navigating Clean Energy: Revolutionizing Hydrogen Production
Missing the wood for the trees is a common occurrence, when obsessive focus on one or more parts obscures the whole. It is more unusual to see a wood swallow a generally admired tree, prune it of its uniqueness, and leave the observer missing its grace and charm. Indians had the occasion to experience such loss, when Vistara merged with Air India last week. True, both airlines belong to the Tata Group, and it does not make sense for the Tatas to operate multiple airline brands. We hope the sleek functionality of Vistara will rub off on Air India, instead of getting lost in the maw of the much larger, older and relatively lugubrious airline.
Kerala’s Mirror of Misogyny: The Hema Committee’s Revelations
Kerala's communists and the culture they championed educated women and ended gross discrimination against them, but this fell far short of realised gender parity
From OPS to UPS: Understanding the Shift in Pension Funding and Its Implications
Arranging pensions to be paid out of returns on a corpus created by contributions from employees and employers, while investing the corpus funds wisely, is a sound practice