The ‘conflict of interest’ brouhaha in Indian cricket

Transparency is the best remedy for conflict of interest and in that aspect, success in Indian cricket is about as transparent and meritocratic as one can get...

Misdiagnosis of the Rajya Sabha malfunction

Why we must be very cautious of the current effort to reduce the powers of the Rajya Sabha and to dilute the provisions of the anti-defection legislation...

Aadhaar, the spectre

Is the voter identity card mandatory or voluntary? A rhetorical question whose answer best captures the intricacy and subtlety of policymaking in India around identity and eligibility...

Arithmetic, not ‘love jihad’

Amit Shah, has been the recipient of unsolicited and incessant sermonising from pundits of civil society about the reasons for the BJP’s lacklustre performance in the recent by-elections...

Aadhaar and the rhetoric of fear

Five years on, we need to examine our xenophobic reactions and paranoia of the intrusive state...

Wharton and Narendra Modi’s missing speech

It is quite evident that nothing has materially changed with Narendra Modi or his actions between the time of the invitation and its subsequent cancellation...

Praveen Chakravarty: Resource Curse or Winner’s Curse ? What’s worse?

Drunk driving is not an argument against driving; the 2G scam alone cannot be an argument against fixed-price resource allocation policy...