Page 2 - Shreekant Sambrani

From Davos, without love

Ms Kaur talks at length about nationalism and its facets

The Empire demystified

Mr Matthews engages in a speculative "what-if" game

Dilip Kumar: The sole supernova in Galaxy Bollywood

Yusuf Khan from Peshawar, aka Dilip Kumar, was completely believable in a wide range of roles in a span of 12 years at the height of his career covering 62 films in nearly 50 years

Scholarship going nowhere

Book review of On Nationalism

The all-too-familiar Mahatma

Any serious student of Indian political history would not be unaware of My Experiments with Truth, the Mahatma's true autobiography.

Jinnah, the maverick autocrat

Book review of Jinnah His Successes, Failures and Role in History

Caste, American style

Book review of Caste: The lies that Divide Us

The stimulus that wasn't

The bulk of Ms Sitharaman's proposals addressed supply problems, with only occasional and cursory references to demand, mostly as an afterthought

Mr Modi's mojo

Coronavirus has occasioned us to see how copious Mr Modi's mojo bag is

Pride and prejudices

The writing is meandering. Long asides interrupt the narrative out of the blue; references to events yet to be described appear with regularity

Modi 2.0: Baptism by (economic) fire

Modi 2.0 certainly matched Roosevelt's despatch in managing legislative affairs in its early days

Gizmos & early users

So Mr Modi might be right in claiming to have used a digital camera in 1987, because Megavision started selling its Tessera camera then

Modi: From pariah to messiah?

In 2014, Mr Modi was the leader of a successful campaign, not the campaign himself

Citizen Raj: Surjit Bhalla's book on polls offers a platter of tasty facts

His treatment of developments in all but the last two decades is cursory and at times not convincing

Credibility counts

The right response to surveys showing unexpected behaviour of key parameters is not to suppress them or cast doubts

Manohar Parrikar: Man with a single minded devotion to take Goa forward

He was an exceptional IITian, an exceptional politician and above all, an exceptional human being

On farm distress, reform and dole

Governments make budgets to retain and consolidate their hold on power, not to please opponents or economists

Russell Wayne Baker (1925-2019): Observer of absurdities

Baker stands out even in this exalted company. He celebrated the ordinary and the everyday life, championing the little men and women considered of no consequence by the system

De-risking Bharat through UBI

Stripped of political hyperbole, that is exactly what rural India- in other words, Bharat as is evocatively called - yearns for.

Time for true universal basic income

If the new basic income programme is restricted to the bottom 50 per cent of the population, both urban and rural, it would cover the most vulnerable groups