Mohan Guruswamy

The share of small loan accounts has been dropping steadily for over a decade and there is no sign of it moving upwards.

As usual, the government is just distracting us with promises and hoping to stave off the inevitable - popular discontent.

We are forgetting the bankers who lent Kingfisher Airlines for something quite as spurious as its brand name.

It was not timed to coincide with the Cuban missile crisis.

The Kakodkar panel pegged the cost of implementing safety measures at about Rs 1 lakh crore. Even a fraction of that money could not be arranged.

So much for experience, technocracy and professionalism.

53 years after, my thoughts go back to the morning I read about JFK's assassination in 'The Daily News', a defunct Hyderabad daily.

Imagine the consequences implicit for New Delhi, Islamabad and Beijing with the supposedly free state wedged in between them?

The nearness of the end of life makes the leader, however powerful they might seem, a lame duck leader.

I disagree that it will employ TNWs even for a single major retaliatory territorial ingress by an Indian armoured column.

Not only is Islamabad running out of water, it seems to be soon running out of time.

With the economic balance of power shifting towards Asia, we must move past the US dollar as the world’s preferred option.

No sooner you get off the tarmac, roads and highways, all signs of government disappear.

Outstanding officers with a strong individuality and intellectual curiosity get culled by the stubborn seniority system.

The tribals have paid dearly for taking Jawaharlal Nehru at his word.

He's not as bad as a Pravin Togadia or that Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.

But parties that profess to be secular and those who profess to oppose pseudo-secularism pander equally to religious obscurantists the most.

Central forces cannot behave like an occupation army.

Thankfully for them Brexit and Rexit serve to hide the magnitude of this diplomatic misadventure.

Will he turn on Modi too, like he once did on the RSS?

India is now expected to become a market-friendly and efficient economy with little space left for cronyism.

While we are at it, why not imagine Dr Subramanian Swamy as the RBI governor?

The requirement of its Navy takes priority.

A full two years after Manmohan Singh demitted office, the GDP has grown a mere 0.5 per cent.

Instead we see them sucking up to an illegitimate family control over a nation and holiest of Muslim shrines.

In the hinterlands, no sooner you get off the tarmac roads and highways, all signs of government disappear.

This was a great opportunity for it to make an omnibus determination on discrimination and not allow any religious or social institution from practising it.

Government hasn't coughed up even a fraction of the Rs 8,00,000 crore outlay required to bring about much-needed modernisation of the dilapidated tracks.

Shinzo Abe sent a bouquet of flowers and a letter of condolence to the family of deceased constable who guarded him during his visit.

The word out now is that we are an indigenous people. Nothing can be further from the truth.