TK Arun A distribution of power among country groups facilitates global growth far more than concentrated power in one or two hegemons There likely is no US debt ceiling crisis in the offing. Wrangling between Democrats and Republicans over expenditure…
Does the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee’s report on Adani, based on interim results of ongoing investigations by markets regulator SEBI, clear Adani of blame, as his lawyer claimed after the report was made public? The answer does not quite blow in the wind.
If you poison the water to catch fish, the fact that the person who performed the vile task caught fewer fish than others does not penalise the culprit, nor does it remove the toxin from the water. The fact that the BJP caught fewer fish than the Congress in Karnataka should not take attention away from the substantive challenges to democracy that remain in India.
What should India get out of its G20 presidency, apart, of course, from countless dos all over the country to remind people, with their pomp, posters and streams of visitors from abroad, of India’s global leadership role?
In our current interconnected, interdependent world, coordination of national policies and actions is a must, to ensure mutual interaction results in productive coherence for the world at large rather than conflict. This calls for global platforms where leaders of the countries that matter can get together and agree on some things. G20 is the most important and most representative of such platforms.
Sharad Pawar has paid the ultimate tribute to Sonia Gandhi, in opposition to whose leadership of the Congress he had left the Grand Old Party — after all, imitation is the highest form of flattery.
In 1999, when Sharad Pawar, PA Sangma, and Tariq Anwar had broken away from the Congress, saying they could not stomach foreigner Sonia being chosen as the president of the party, Sonia Gandhi resigned from her newly elected post. That set off an emotional upheaval at the party. Everyone who had stayed back was forced to join the chorus — started by some genuine votaries of a Congress led by Gandhi — asking, beseeching, and pleading with Sonia Gandhi to take back her resignation and take charge of the party. She complied and led a relatively unified party.
Gender ideology which makes people shy away from confronting sexual harassment depresses India’s GDP, research output, and strategic capacity.