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Darkness under the lamp -
BS Raghavan, Business Line
The shocking revelation in The Hindu of April 29, headlined “Niece, friend of Adviser to Manmohan got land largesse from BEML co-op” must have left every reader of the paper in a state of stunned disbelief. The tidal waves of moral degeneration, which had hitherto been leaving most other institutions crumbled in its wake, seem now to have submerged what should have been the fountainhead, and the model and the mainspring, of values to which public servants should adhere.
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Growth pick-up still a mirage -
Ila Patnaik, Financial Express
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Not just another border incident -
Sushil Kumar, Indian Express
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Give Sam Walton the Nobel Prize -
Charles Kenny, Foreign Policy
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PM is right, the world is laughing at us, but why? -
Dhananjay Mahapatra, Times of India
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India’s labour pangs -
Mint
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UPA lies to court, CBI crawls before regime -
Pioneer
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Being unreasonable with China -
Nitin Pai, Business Standard
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India’s repulsive political culture -
BS Raghavan, Business Line
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Why the CBI’s Coalgate affidavit could be a watershed -
RK Raghavan, FirstPost
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Pressure China to back off -
Sandeep Bamzai, Mail Today
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China is encircling India -
Ram Jethmalani, Sunday Guardian
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The will and won’t of corruption -
MJ Akbar, Sunday Guardian
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Free speech in the era of its technological amplification -
Jason Pontin, Technology Review
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Deal with China in a language it understands -
Kanchan Gupta, Pioneer
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Growth improves wages more than MNREGA -
SA Aiyar, Times of India
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BJP's JP moment -
Sudheendra Kulkarni, Indian Express
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Sleeping Tiger creeping Dragon -
Swapan Dasgupta, Pioneer
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A CBI Director’s shady past -
Priyadarshi Dutta, Niti Central
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Freeing FDI -
Financial Express
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Rob Peter, pay Paul -
TN Ninan, Business Standard
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Compromised Bureau of Investigation -
Hindu
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Chacko must resign -
Pioneer
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The power brokers -
Antara Dev Sen, Deccan Chronicle
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Truth is now grey matter -
Hindustan Times
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UPA economists in state of denial -
Rajiv Kumar, Mail Today
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 There was for years an old "social contract" between politicians and business. This provided for complex rules and regulations that made it impossible to do business honestly in many fields. But it was possible to do business dishonestly, through pay-offs . Some called this "efficient corruption" : politicians took money and delivered clearances. However, the anti-corruption mood of the courts, and new fears of getting caught (like Pawan Bansal) have ended "efficient corruption" . Politicians may still take money but not deliver on clearances , what some call "inefficient corruption" that freezes investment and growth. The old social contract has broken down.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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