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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference after the 49th GST Council meeting, in New Delhi, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Slow economic growth a major challenge for...

    The economic indicators listed in the monetary policy statement of the Reserve Bank of India, raising the repo rate to...

    22 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma addresses the media, at the state secretariat in Guwahati, Saturday. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Using stick isn’t the way to deter child...

    On the face of it, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is fighting the good fight against the social evil of child...

    10 Feb 2023 12:36 AM IST

    New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid...

    It is a curiously different Union Budget statement that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented in the Lok Sabha...

    3 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Supreme Court (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC leaves a lot of loose ends with...

    The Supreme Court should not have considered the entire question of demonetisation, and its validity or otherwise, in...

    4 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s culture wars: A clash of...

    There is also the basic question whether the Hindu liberals are really liberal, and whether the Hindu reactionaries are...

    26 Dec 2022 2:30 PM IST

    ParliamentOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt has it easy in Parl session as Opp....

    Prime Minister Modi and the ruling BJP have sent out the message that the Opposition is in direct and indirect ways...

    23 Dec 2022 10:04 AM IST

    This file photo taken on October 14, 2018 shows soldiers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force taking part in a military review at the Ground Self-Defence Forces Asaka training ground in Asaka, Saitama prefecture. - Japan announced on December 16, 2022 its biggest defence overhaul in decades, hiking spending, reshaping its military command and acquiring new missiles to tackle the threat from China. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Japan’s rearmament impact India’s...

    The East Asia scenario has got a lot more complex with Japan’s decision to rearm itself for the first time in 77...

    21 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Supreme Court (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The hidden politics behind Supreme...

    Union law minister Kiren Rijiju has an unexceptionable observation that the collegium system was alien to the Indian...

    7 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

    File photo of Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi waving at supporters at a public meeting ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, in Kheda district. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Gujarat, Modi’s home base, remains a...

    The relentless campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah for the coming Gujarat...

    30 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Cover photo of Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor (Photo by arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Was Ambedkar Gandhi’s best critic or worst?

    We have in this book an ideal introduction to Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s life and politics. It is a lucid and brief...

    6 Nov 2022 1:17 AM IST

    The peak point of growth and prosperity is quite far off, so the short and medium-term prospects of growth and prosperity are nothing but bright. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Towards a more affluent India: Future not...

    The optimistic projection of the People Research on India’s Consumer Economy (Price) is that by 2047 -- when...

    4 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    File photo of Mulayam Singh Yadav.Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Mulayam: A socialist who managed...

    It is not surprising that the obituarists and memorialists of Samajwadi Party patriarch and three-time Uttar Pradesh...

    12 Oct 2022 12:01 AM IST

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