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D. Raghunandan
30th March 2013
The expose of alleged bribery in the Indian deal to buy Agusta Westland helicopters from the Italian company, Finmeccanica, led to a brief storm of media debates and anguished commentaries, followed by some official probes and actions. As often happens in India these days, though, the development soon receded in the public consciousness and from media attention, overtaken by the next scam or sensation. However, one hopes that the many important indeed crucial issues of public policy raised in these discussions, ...
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Last Updated on Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:09 |
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D. Raghunandan
10th January 2013
Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh last week unveiled a new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (henceforth STI for short) at the centenary-year Indian Science Congress in Kolkata. The STI Policy is co ...
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 07:39 |
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D. Raghunandan
9th January, 2013
India has a reputation for announcing policies that are poorly conceived, insufficiently thought through and badly implemented, and which later run into huge problems causing losses to both stakeholders and the public, often leaving both the policy itself and the targeted sector in shambles.
The Naresh Chandra Committee on Civil Aviation submitted a comprehensive Report in 2004, some recommendations from which have be ...
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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 January 2013 08:54 |
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Prabir Purkayastha
15th November 2012
The study of the past has never been an easy exercise. We earlier had two sources of data – textual and archaeological. All this had to be fitted into patterns for a coherent and consistent view of the past – this was the core enterprise of history. Of course, this still leaves open the question of how to look at these patterns – the framework of what constitutes history. Is it an account of various rulers and dates or an account of the people, how they lives and w ...
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 November 2012 09:11 |
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Prabir Purkayastha
25th September 2012
The blocking of some websites and twitter handles recently have produced different kinds of response – some have questioned the blocking itself while others have argued that the government action was ham handed even if the intent was justified. We also had the strange spectacle of Narendra Modi claiming to be a champion of free speech, in spite of his and BJP's record of muzzling people. The mystery cleared up when we realised that among the sites blocked were a ...
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 September 2012 07:29 |
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