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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The prime minister’s speech in parliament last week showed that the BJP’s objective now is to more than distort our distant memory: it is to deny our immediate experience.
“The future is certain. It is the past that is unpredictable.”
That old Soviet epigram feels increasingly like an epitaph for Narendra Modi’s New India. The squalid present we inhabit—replete with death, disease, disparity, discrimination, joblessness, sectarian strife, communal disharmony, cronyism, institutional degeneration, constitutional debasement—is nothing like the sleek vision of the future that mesmerized so many Indians eight years ago. So the regime that engineered our national nightmare, too sinister to self-examine and too vain to self-correct, has resorted to exonerating itself by recasting the past. And it isn’t the remote past, over which so much blood has already …
The ruling party’s control over state institutions has come to look like ordinary governance. Reversing this capture is essential to restoring India’s constitutional democracy.
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
Former WeWork chief is betting on the Mideast markets, fresh attacks have the Gulf on edge again, and other updates from this week.
