Sunil Sethi

Enablers in Budget will perk up economy: FDCI chairman Sunil Sethi

"It is exciting to know about the encouragement to states for setting up Unity Malls for the further promotion and sale of One District One Product scheme, GI and handicraft products"

Courts, courtiers, and magicians

Behind the teetering government in Rajasthan ― and the Congress's collapse in Madhya Pradesh four months ago ― is the saga of the Gandhi dynasty scraping the bottom of the barrel

Eight days in a Covid hospital

By definition a quarantined Covid unit is a bubble-like entity, with little link to the outside world

Binge-reading and -watching

Binge-watchers filling up empty days may ask: Why read a book when there's the movie? Apart from putting the cart before the horse, it's a lazy question

Quarantined lives

In countries with a wider coverage of digital communication, overuse of the internet is causing the opposite problem

One man's meat is another's poison

Chronicles of life in China devote chapter and verse to the ongoing battle between government authorities and consumers

A capital walkover?

A repeat of 67 out of the 70 seats in 2015 may be hard for AAP to achieve today

Lighting the campus tinderbox

Mr Modi's authoritarian streak is sometimes compared to Indira Gandhi's rise to absolute power. If so, the triggering of a students' agitation carries a fateful echo from the non-so-distant past

A rapid reader for 2019

It's been a fruitful year for scholars. A couple of works of history stand out

A saga of corporate greed and plunder

The Anarchy derives its subaltern flavour from its liberal use of non-official sources - multi-lingual accounts by contemporary observers spiced with judicious dollops of bazaar gossip

Deep freeze in the Valley

An untested game plan Kashmir is in deep freeze for an indefinite time, says the author

Rajiv Gandhi and the 'baba log' years

Rajiv's political life was bookended and propelled by terrible tragedies

Chill wind in the Valley

No major protests or encounters took place and travel to the Mughal gardens and monuments in provincial districts of Anantnag and Baramulla was unhindered

Sheila Dikshit truly a daughter of Delhi who never stopped building bridges

Sheila Dikshit received the heartfelt send-off she did because she was truly a daughter of Delhi who never stopped building bridges

Our permanently stunted children

Blighted childhoods are an urban reality as much as in the hinterland's perilous zones

Confessions of a 'Khan Market gang' member

Narendra Modi's denunciation of the Lutyens elite is another classist label on a par with Rahul Gandhi's insult of "suit boot ki sarkar"

A campaign of venom and vilification

The high-pitched BJP narrative of demonising Muslims everywhere is now countered with the spectre of 'saffron terror'

When cash is king

Votes-for-notes no longer only means blandishments of cash and goodies for fence-sitting voters

Arpita Singh: A milestone in a modernist's journey

In our many years of friendship I have never heard Arpita Singh talk about her art; it is a subject she studiously avoids

Is Priyanka more than a show-stopper?

If she appears pleasant, and instinctively knowing, it's because she's grown up among courtiers in the oldest court in town