Mainstream Weekly

• Accolades Abroad, Darkness at Home

  by SC
  EDITORIAL
  In his first major global outing at Fortaleza, Brazil to attend the BRICS Summit, the country’s new PM Narendra Modi has been able to successfully project India’s international image while confidently establishing himself as an  (...)

• FDI in Defence: Some Questions

  by Barun Das Gupta
  Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget speech has said that his government was raising the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap in Defence from 26 per cent to 49 per cent. (He is also the Defence Minister.) Worrying as this piece of  (...)

• The Fiscal Game 2014 - 15

  by Kamal Nayan Kabra
  Do the slew of Budget proposals tell a coherent story with its main characters and their roles defining their relativities vis-à-vis each other and in the process unravel the overall plot and the moral of the story? With an over-advertised play,  (...)

• A Budget for Hindu Rashtra or Secular India?

  by Arun Srivastava
  Impassioned election speeches of Narendra Modi to create a Congress-Mukt Bharat (an India Free of the Congress) was not aimed only at changing the political system and power structure of the country, it also aimed to exhort  (...)

• A Book-keeper’s Exercise

  by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  It’s like a political rope trick, Chidambaram’s maiden Budget as the Finance Minister of the United Front Government. Everyone from V.P. Singh and Somnath Chatterjee to the captains of the corporate giants have praised it  (...)

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