Ashoak Upadhyay

Drop the euphoria for a moment – a third of India is seriously poor. And urban poverty has risen sharply

The finance minister has to deal with bottlenecks that may choke growth initiatives. Leveraged India Inc is the chief one

Raghuram Rajan is right in raising doubts about the need for a super-regulator in the financial sector

The RBI balanced both inflation and growth objectives by doing a minor SLR cut. How will fiscal policy respond?

Indians remain sandwiched between the whites and the blacks in post-apartheid South Africa

Celebrating twenty years of freedom, South Africans are wondering where and why things went wrong

The differences between Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi have far deeper historical roots than is apparent

The Lokpal Bill is the first step to clean governance. Next is devolution of powers.

All that the middle class wants is a centralised state that encourages growth. The ethics of this approach are not its concern.