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Market Reckoning

The Indian middle class has witnessed a financial revolution in recent years. Encouraged by a booming stock market, low-cost digital platforms, and aggressive financial influencers, millions of households have moved their savings from traditional bank deposits to equities.

Tariff Chaos

The recent back-and-forth on tariffs imposed by the US on Canadian and Mexican goods underscores the unpredictability of President Donald Trump’s trade policies.

Curse of Capitalism

Capitalism, the ‘saviour of the free world,’ was touted as an economic paradigm that incentivised effort, encouraged barter and most crucially, brought power back into the deserving hands of the masses of regular, hard-working people.

Can Nato remain relevant?

The ongoing dilemma surrounding Nato’s expanding portfolio of tasks has intensified under the Trump 2.0 administration which increasingly exposes an inner tension regarding the financial burdens associated with the alliance.

Defence spending a part of national development

The more powerful the allocation for capability development the more determined the nation is towards facing its threats. The government must realize that the armed forces, apart from ensuring national security, are also engines for national growth and development.   

Visibly Republican

The power and authority of the Constitution would be provided by people. The word justice was specifically used to implement the constitutional provisions in all areas of life, social, economic, and political. It explicitly guaranteed equality of opportunity and democratic freedom. But significantly, it also added adequate safeguards for minorities, depressed and the backward classes as well also for the underdeveloped and tribal areas. It offered a holistic view of development of a nation of major contradictions with equal constitutional citizenship for every single Indian as the guiding principle 

Her best Budget

In the Finance Minister‘s budget speech, the word ‘development‘ occurs 38 times, followed by ‘infrastructure‘ which occurs 28 times and ‘growth‘ which occurs 15 times. The message is unmistakable the government believes that development and growth are to be brought via the medium of investment in infrastructure. Infrastructure has been the focus of this budget, as it was in the last two years also 

Degrees of failure

Today the war on intellect is no more confined to the authoritarian polities. Open societies are equally waging a war on academia. Big business houses and big tech companies in the US provide donations to academic institutions but these typically come with ideological blinders attached. The University of Utah accepted a $10 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation to establish a free-market economics programme to counter the ostensibly Marxian bent of the university‘s economics department