Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are covering the just-concluded Trump-Xi summit, the renewed focus on Taiwan, Russia’s large-scale attack on Kyiv and Ukraine’s response, the collapse of the Latvian government due to a drone incident, and the elimination of the Islamic State terror group’s No.2 in Nigeria. So,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to save fuel and stop gold purchases for a year has, as usual, not gone down well with the opposition parties. The debacle in West Bengal and Assam had taken away the opposition’s opportunity to vent its bitterness against Prime Minister Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party. After the appeal for…
With Tata-ASML deal, India’s finally getting into chip manufacturing, and in a big way It won’t be long before semiconductors, or chips, sold in a year are worth more than oil. Just last week, TSMC, world’s largest chipmaker, said annual chip sales could touch $1.5tn by 2030. How many might be made in India? A…
To increase resilience, massively scale up renewables, electrify transport, and make India attractive for world’s best companiesFrom an oasis-of-comfort to crisis-time (sankat kaal) in mere weeks? That was fast. Mid-April, GOI declared India an oasis of comfort and looked condescendingly at those countries responding to skyrocketing crude prices, triggered by Iran-US-Israel war, with fuel price…
Falling exchange rate can curb imports more effectively than austerity measures. Don’t intervene in forex market India faces a familiar policy conundrum. A sharp rise in global prices of oil, gas, and fertilisers, triggered by conflict in West Asia, is weighing on growth while putting pressure on the rupee. To reduce the import bill and…
Himachal HC should have responded differently to a habeas corpus case A man seeks Himachal HC’s help, for a woman whose life he believes to be under threat, going by her text messages to him. Himachal HC division bench, instead of stepping up, and maybe hearing the woman also, packs the petitioner off with a…
India is finally entering the chip-making business in a big way Computer chips, also called semiconductors, are becoming one of the world’s most important products. In fact, experts say that by 2030, the world could sell more chips every year than oil. Until recently, India was not seen as a country that actually made chips….
A man went to the Himachal High Court because he was worried about a woman he knew. She had sent messages saying she might be in danger. The man believed her husband and mother-in-law were stopping her from leaving the house. But instead of checking if the woman was safe, the court focused on one…
Like a diamond forged under immense pressure, my journey from suffering to success has been shaped by strength and transformation. In this respect, it is a story not just of survival, but of triumph against the darkest odds. A childhood in chains (0 – 10 years) I was born in Kolkata in the early 1970s,…
Chief minister C Joseph Vijay has kept the black ‘Beast’ suit on. And the sartorial symbolism matters: he is different. Yet symbolism can only open the door; governance must walk through it. Tamil Nadu today is not merely watching what Vijay does; it is watching whom he chooses to do it with. A full cabinet…