Page 5 - Letters
Profligate plan
It also betrays insensitivity to people's growing anger at the potholed Bengaluru roads killing citizens virtually on a daily basis
Fixing implementation
Four decades of socialist economic functioning laid greater stress on job security than job performance
Unequal rivals
The Congress leadership is no match for him in strategic thinking and stamina
Not over the moon
Rahul had said that Modi makes false promises and that he would even promise to bring the moon to the earth by 2030
Letters: Too early for conclusions
Indian defence minister greeted Chinese soldiers with "Namaste" and they responded with "Ni hao"
Letters: India's productivity is low
For vegetarians in India, milk consumption is crucial
Letters: Reversing the gains
The relaxation in KYC norms for jewellery purchase is indeed a regressive move, probably taken to please the traders' lobby
Letters: Devil is in the detail
The journey of these power plants from overly aggressive bidding to deep financial trouble is well known
Letters: Thaler's contribution
The book, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, which Thaler co-authored with Cass R Sunstein in 2008, will now attract more readers
Letters: Why commit hara-kiri?
Defamation cases filed against news portal The Wire and others by Amit Shah's son Jay Shah will likely not end the political slugfest over his firm recording a turnover of Rs 80 cr in just a year
Letters: Urgent steps for IAF
India has to create a modern 33-squadron Indian Air Force fleet by 2025
Letters: Expediency over GST
There may be more coming as GST is new and it will take time to iron out the nitty-gritty
Letters: Misreading influx crisis
Illegal immigration from Bangladesh is a protracted problem in the region, over which India had to go to war with Pakistan in 1971
Letters: Evading electoral reform
The government of the day seems to have some other ideas
Letters: Time for aggressive steps
While shrinking the cost of resources, banks should mobilise the more cost-effective ones, instead of cutting interest rates on term resources
Letters: Why so much distrust?
As ordinary citizens are not expected to be legal experts, let us hope the Supreme Court takes note of current developments
Letters: Shed the narcissism
Even with a political mandate panning out in its term and a series of missteps, the BJP can still redeem itself
Letters: Let the RBI decide
Inflation appears comfortable for now, but the RBI expects it to go up in the near to medium term due to unavoidable factors
Letters: Turbulence likely
Congress is right in asserting that the government's unilateral deferment of recovery of a substantial part of the spectrum auction amount
Letters: Study in contradiction
Why, even Jawaharlal Nehru took the help of astrology in his final days, as journalist Durga Das recounts in his book India from Curzon to Nehru and After
