Ravi Shanker Kapoor, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Rs 76,000-crore package is good, but more is needed

The targets set are achievable, but they are predicated upon a variety of factors, the most important of which is the business climate. The Narendra...

Lynching normalised in Pak

The entire Pakistan government, indeed the entire system, is jihad-compliant. The lynching of Priyantha Diyawadanage, a 48-year-old Sri Lankan man in Sialkot, underlines Pakistan’s descent...

Lynching normalised in Pak

The entire Pakistan government, indeed the entire system, is jihad-compliant. The lynching of Priyantha Diyawadanage, a 48-year-old Sri Lankan man in Sialkot, underlines Pakistan’s descent...

Lynching normalised in Pak

The entire Pakistan government, indeed the entire system, is jihad-compliant. The lynching of Priyantha Diyawadanage, a 48-year-old Sri Lankan man in Sialkot, underlines Pakistan’s descent...

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is bad news for free speech

Agrawal will be far worse than Dorsey. In a 2010 tweet, Agrawal had said, ‘I am not sure what is more troubling: death of...

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is bad news for free speech

Agrawal will be far worse than Dorsey. In a 2010 tweet, Agrawal had said, ‘I am not sure what is more troubling: death of...

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is bad news for free speech

Agrawal will be far worse than Dorsey. In a 2010 tweet, Agrawal had said, ‘I am not sure what is more troubling: death of...

Move to ban cryptocurrencies is unfortunate

Many major democracies, such as the US, Canada and the UK, allow the use of Bitcoin. Even the tiny Latin American nation, El Salvador...

Move to ban cryptocurrencies is unfortunate

Many major democracies, such as the US, Canada and the UK, allow the use of Bitcoin. Even the tiny Latin American nation, El Salvador...

Move to ban cryptocurrencies is unfortunate

Many major democracies, such as the US, Canada and the UK, allow the use of Bitcoin. Even the tiny Latin American nation, El Salvador...

Victimisation of privatisers will affect growth

The facts of HZL transaction make it evident that it was completely transparent. The Supreme Court’s directive to the Central Bureau of Investigation is to...

Victimisation of privatisers will affect growth

The facts of HZL transaction make it evident that it was completely transparent. The Supreme Court’s directive to the Central Bureau of Investigation is to...

Victimisation of privatisers will affect growth

The facts of HZL transaction make it evident that it was completely transparent. The Supreme Court’s directive to the Central Bureau of Investigation is to...

Competitive illiberalism

Freedom of expression does and should cover the right to express weird and unwise views. Since individual liberty includes the right to be weird...

Competitive illiberalism

Freedom of expression does and should cover the right to express weird and unwise views. Since individual liberty includes the right to be weird...

Competitive illiberalism

Freedom of expression does and should cover the right to express weird and unwise views. Since individual liberty includes the right to be weird...

Prohibition plagues Bihar

Corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, and cops love liquor ban, for it means big money. It is easy to imagine the magnitude of corruption in a...

Prohibition plagues Bihar

Corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, and cops love liquor ban, for it means big money. It is easy to imagine the magnitude of corruption in a...

Prohibition plagues Bihar

Corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, and cops love liquor ban, for it means big money. It is easy to imagine the magnitude of corruption in a...

ONDC: Commerce Ministry’s e-commerce adventure

There will also be private parties holding equity in ONDC, but it is the sarkari entities that would be calling the shots. An equally...

ONDC: Commerce Ministry’s e-commerce adventure

There will also be private parties holding equity in ONDC, but it is the sarkari entities that would be calling the shots. An equally...

ONDC: Commerce Ministry’s e-commerce adventure

There will also be private parties holding equity in ONDC, but it is the sarkari entities that would be calling the shots. An equally...

Statist approach can’t galvanise manufacturing

Generally, dirigisme and statism result in a rift between policy and reality. Sentimentalism and ad hoc reactions are poor substitutes for sound policy. Had decision...

Statist approach can’t galvanise manufacturing

Generally, dirigisme and statism result in a rift between policy and reality. Sentimentalism and ad hoc reactions are poor substitutes for sound policy. Had decision...

Statist approach can’t galvanise manufacturing

Generally, dirigisme and statism result in a rift between policy and reality. Sentimentalism and ad hoc reactions are poor substitutes for sound policy. Had decision...

A dreamscape called strategic autonomy

Non-alignment kept us hostile to the West in the past; Beijing wants that India should persist with the same policy, now rephrased as strategic...

A dreamscape called strategic autonomy

Non-alignment kept us hostile to the West in the past; Beijing wants that India should persist with the same policy, now rephrased as strategic...

A dreamscape called strategic autonomy

Non-alignment kept us hostile to the West in the past; Beijing wants that India should persist with the same policy, now rephrased as strategic...

Don’t tar all concerns as Islamophobia

The correctness of the bishop’s statement on narcotic jihad must be determined by empirical evidence, not by the opinion makers’ beliefs and sentiments. A Kerala...

Don’t tar all concerns as Islamophobia

The correctness of the bishop’s statement on narcotic jihad must be determined by empirical evidence, not by the opinion makers’ beliefs and sentiments. A Kerala...

Don’t tar all concerns as Islamophobia

The correctness of the bishop’s statement on narcotic jihad must be determined by empirical evidence, not by the opinion makers’ beliefs and sentiments. A Kerala...

Strategic autonomy should not kill the Quad

Why is India so reluctant to make the Quad a security alliance? That China is a military threat to it, indeed to the entire...

Strategic autonomy should not kill the Quad

Why is India so reluctant to make the Quad a security alliance? That China is a military threat to it, indeed to the entire...

Strategic autonomy should not kill the Quad

Why is India so reluctant to make the Quad a security alliance? That China is a military threat to it, indeed to the entire...

Congress’ leftward tilt will hurt it

In a way, Congress’ crisis is part of a global pattern of liberal and social democratic parties being overtaken by the radical Left. With the...

Congress’ leftward tilt will hurt it

In a way, Congress’ crisis is part of a global pattern of liberal and social democratic parties being overtaken by the radical Left. With the...

Congress’ leftward tilt will hurt it

In a way, Congress’ crisis is part of a global pattern of liberal and social democratic parties being overtaken by the radical Left. With the...

Telecom, banking packages may work, but PLI can’t revive auto sector

The package includes several measures, the most important being a four-year moratorium on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. The Narendra Modi government last week announced...

Telecom, banking packages may work, but PLI can’t revive auto sector

The package includes several measures, the most important being a four-year moratorium on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. The Narendra Modi government last week announced...

Telecom, banking packages may work, but PLI can’t revive auto sector

The package includes several measures, the most important being a four-year moratorium on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. The Narendra Modi government last week announced...

Twenty years later, it is Taliban redux

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is surely true in Afghanistan. On 11 September 2001, the Taliban ruled the...

Twenty years later, it is Taliban redux

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is surely true in Afghanistan. On 11 September 2001, the Taliban ruled the...

Twenty years later, it is Taliban redux

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is surely true in Afghanistan. On 11 September 2001, the Taliban ruled the...

Q1 GDP figures are depressing but not surprising

The problem is the government’s statist attitude and its reluctance to decontrol the economy at the pace that is required. The growth data released by...

Q1 GDP figures are depressing but not surprising

The problem is the government’s statist attitude and its reluctance to decontrol the economy at the pace that is required. The growth data released by...

Q1 GDP figures are depressing but not surprising

The problem is the government’s statist attitude and its reluctance to decontrol the economy at the pace that is required. The growth data released by...