New global trade pacts may cut out India, China

A new global trading system is being erected, almost unnoticed in India. One of its unstated aims is to check China's rise through ec...

Narendra Modi, a modern parallel of the ruthlessly ambitious Mughal emperor Aurangzeb

Who could imagine that Aurangzeb and Narendra Modi would have some things in common? But life surprises. To begin with, both are Guj...

Narendra Modi risks peaking too early & suffering from burn-out

n four decades since Narendra Modi stepped into politics as a junior apparatchik of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ), he would hav...

Modi should highlight Golwalkar, not Patel

Pursuing legacies is an enduring inspiration, both for those who want to be stimulated by examples of great lives and times as well as fo...

Voters are not swayed by macroeconomic data, but job creation

Every time growth numbers move up or down a few percentage points or the industrial production data is announced, there is a frenzy of hea...

Female Power: 18 women who rule the world

South Korean President-elect Park Geun-Hye, of the ruling Saenuri Party, waves to supporters after she is declared the winner of the pre...