8 Feb 2022
Harini Calamur
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A few days after Republic Day, where we celebrated our rights, we are seeing the sight of young Muslim women who are seeking a college education being turned away from institutions of learning – for the crime of wearing a hijab/burqa. In a blatantly discriminatory move, some colleges across coastal Karnataka are preventing their female…
10 Feb 2021
Chitra Subramaniam
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India must talk trade, for its people by its people and with its people. What India needs today is not a paradigm shift, a new narrative nor a strategy but hard work, focus and commitment aimed at creating nearly 20 million jobs the economy will consume year on year. If you think global trade negotiations…
25 Aug 2020
Chitra Subramaniam
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In my 1997 book India Is For Sale, I wrote in some detail about how Indians do not understand conflict of interest. They understand conflict and they understand interest but they think the ‘of’ in between is only a preposition. Social climbers are especially attracted to this kind of unprincipled herd mentality. L’affaire Wall Street…