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Yes, it’s true. Raghuram Rajan is very Un-Indian on multiple counts. Photocredit: live.av.info Raghuram Rajan a youthful financial messiah amidst grey heads Early start First, like Dr. Manmohan Singh before him and unlike every other Governor of the Reserve Bank, Rajan became governor at the “tender”, almost youthful age -by Indian metrics- of just fifty […]
Read More Why Raghuram Rajan is not Indianphoto credit: indiatoday.com. How many 2000 cc plus private diesel cars can you spot in this randomly selected grid lock? Imposing a green cess on large diesel cars is populism at its worst. Less than 5% of private cars fall in this category and they have fairly competitive exhaust parameters because diesel engine technology has […]
Read More Don’t demonise dieselPhoto credit: NDTV.com: Harish Rawat – the unfortunate Congress Chief Minister, sacked by the President of India for failing to fulfill his constitutional mandate to get the budget approved Nothing illustrates the cost of wantonly discarding democracy and handing over the government to unelected officials (Governor) than the case of Uttarakhand. To recap the turn […]
Read More Disaster sans democracy in Uttarakhand
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