Opinion/Editorials
The Censor Bench - Arun Jaitley, Indian Express
Some interim orders issued by the courts have restrained publication or comment on certain matters of public importance. Orders imposing judicial censorship on the media have been extremely rare. Except in the rarest of rare cases, judicial “gag orders” are as abhorrent as executive restraints on the media.
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Drift & Rift, Sonia & PM - Abheek Barman, Economic Times
Mission Modi - Hindu
Strategic pincer & Trojan horses - Bharat Karnad, Asian Age
A lost decade - Mint
Stop appeasing the dragon - Pravin Sawhney, Pioneer
Himalayan blunder to Himalayan handshake - Claude Arpi, Pioneer
Of future shocks and global complexities - Pratip Kar, Business Standard
Self-Serving Report - Times of India
Why the Sonia-Manmohan dual power centre hasn't worked - Minhaz Merchant, Times of India
The law and short of it - Chakshu Roy, Indian Express
DBT’s LPG test - Santosh Tiwari, Financial Express
Bad Apple? - Financial Express
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
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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.
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