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Poor economics - PP Sangal, Economic Times
The Planning Commission drew flak when it calculated that if an urban person spent 28 per head every day and someone in rural areas spent 22, that was enough to consider them to be above the poverty line. These figures are based on consumption expenditure data collected in the 66th round of NSSO for 2009-10. 
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After four years of UPA 2, the India story looks bleak - Venky Vembu, FirstPost
Vinod Rai brought credibility to CAG’s office - Pioneer
Uniform national licences in telecom are overdue - Business Standard
Watching the watchmen - Arghya Sengupta, Hindu
Underperforming even in good times - Arvind Subramanian, Business Standard
Amartya Sen is wrong in his claim that delay in Food Bill killing a thousand every week - Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Economic Times
Birthday bumps - Indian Express
The Li effect: India and China have acknowledged their differences, a start towards resolving them - Times of India
A legit silence - Fali S Nariman, Asian Age
Why China’s riches won’t bring it freedom - Pankaj Mishra, EconomicTimes
Fancying his chance to be PM - Sandipan Deb, India Today
The uncrowned emperor - Pioneer
Whose cinema is it anyway? - Vanita Kohli-Khandekar, Business Standard
On the defensive on too many occasions - Sandhya Jain, Pioneer
Chinese PM Li’s India visit: Building trust is the challenge - Tarun Vijay, Times of India
Dealing with India’s China problem - Mint
Nawaz Sharif should not hold back on boosting India-Pakistan ties - Times of India
The evil that men do... - Financial Express
Pakistan 2.0 - Komail Aijazuddin, Indian Express
The celebration of wealth in The Great Gatsby - AO Scott, Indian Express
A welcome candour - Indian Express
Obama’s tapped-out trust - George F Will, WashingtonPost
Richard Milhous Obama - Carl M Cannon, Real Clear Politics
A handshake across the Himalayas - Li Keqiang, Hindu
The Prime Minister's position is untenable - Balbir Punj, Pioneer
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The UPA 2 government was conceived in corruption – and never really recovered from that taint. Right from the day the election results came in, the back-channel negotiations began for the reappointment of A Raja as Telecom Minister to advance the interests of certain telecom majors (in return for illegal gratification). It was an enterprise which set the stage for India’s biggest corruption scandal and virtually set the political tone for the rest of the four years. As subsequent exposes have established, Manmohan Singh and other key Ministers knew full well that mischief was afoot, but pointedly looked the other way. That was the beginning of the slide, and the UPA government in general – and Manmohan Singh in particular – was mortally wounded from that episode. But rather than press ahead with remedial action, the government slid further into the cesspool of corruption.
Venky Vembu
 

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