Sanju Verma

Droupadi Murmu is the face of new India

July 11, 2022

If elected on July 18, 2022, Draupadi Murmu will be the first tribal President of India and only the second woman to hold the highest constitutional office of the land. Murmu was born in the Baldaposi village in the Kusumi block of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj, a district which has a 58...

Modi at eight: The Varanasi model

July 4, 2022

Taking forward the progressive journey of “Vikaswaad” in Varanasi,Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 15,2021,inaugurated and laid foundation stones of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 1500 crore at the IIT-BHU ground. He also inaugurated the International Cooperation and Convention Centre, ‘Rudrakash’, which was constructed with Japanese assistance later....

Gujarat riots: Narendra Modi vindicated

June 27, 2022

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court with Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari, and CT Ravikumar, while dismissing the plea,noted that the claim of criminal conspiracy in the Gujarat riots by the then CM of Gujarat (Narendra Modi) and other State functionaries was absolutely false. “The structure of larger criminal...

Agnipath: Made in India and Made for India

June 20, 2022

The Agnipath scheme is a transformational reform for the army and the nation that was long overdue. The Kargil War Commission had way back in 1999 recommended the need to drastically reduce the overall average age of the armed forces and Agnipath seeks to do precisely that, besides of course...

Inflation and food security: Facts versus propaganda

June 6, 2022

Under the UPA, retail inflation was more than 9% in 22 of the 28 months from January 2012 to April 2014. During this time, inflation even crossed into double-digits, 9 times. This was largely due to irresponsible fiscal policies, crony capitalism, and policy paralysis. Fuel inflation is a complex issue...

Inflation and food security: Facts versus propaganda

May 30, 2022

Another major issue affecting advanced and developing economies alike is global supply chains, which continue to be severely affected by the events of the past two years. Transport costs have skyrocketed. And unlike the oil-based supply shock of the 1970s, the COVID-19 supply shocks are more diverse and opaque, and...

Inflation and food security: Facts versus propaganda

May 23, 2022

India’s retail inflation measured by the consumer price index (CPI) soared to 7.79%, for April 2022. In March 2022, the figure for Consumer price-based inflation was 6.95% and 4.21% in April 2021. The recent spike in CPI is mainly on account of costlier food items. Despite perception to the contrary,...

The sedition law: Congress versus BJP

May 16, 2022

In a significant development, the Modi government told the Supreme Court via an affidavit on May 9, 2022, that it has decided to re-examine and reconsider Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalises the offence of sedition (SG Vombatkere vs Union of India). “The government of India...

Modi 2.0: Empowering India’s bond market

May 9, 2022

Conventionally speaking, the economic development of a nation is in many ways a function of the vibrancy of its debt market as it is a great avenue for capital raising by both public and private sector enterprises, thus reducing the need for direct government intervention, by saying other measures like...

Uniform Civil Code: An idea whose time has come

May 2, 2022

The recent Hijab controversy brought Uniform Civil Code (UCC) back into focus. The pro-Hijab lobby tried every trick in the book to support Hijab inside classrooms, under the guise of personal choice, religious practice, privacy and more. It is not the State’s job to dictate what citizens should eat, how...

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