Gurcharan Das

The events of the past month have been so tragic, so unspeakably ugly that the only rational response was to pretend it wasn’t happening. The raging second wave of the virus revealed not only t...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2021/05/covid-and-bureaucracy-india-needs.html

 The Times of India | April 2021  The dreaded second wave of the coronavirus has created a national emergency. You’d think it would have united our republic, but India remains hopelessly di...

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 The Times of India | March 2021 Pratap Bhanu Mehta, professor of political science and a passionate critic of the government, resigned from Ashoka University last week because he felt he’d ...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-tale-of-two-heroes-ashoka-university.html

 The Print | March 2021 With its job reservation bill, the Haryana government led by BJP Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has scored a self-goal. Haryana will lose out in the end if it goes ...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2021/03/gurugram-inc-wont-expand-in-haryana.html

 The Times of India | December 2020 The current protests by Punjab’s farmers hold many lessons. One of them is that politics is a short game, a T20 cricket match, while economics is a long t...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2020/12/dont-kill-2nd-green-revolution-rolling.html

 The Times of India | November 2020 Indira Gandhi’s Emergency was a tragedy in modern India’s history. A second tragedy was not to have undone the terrible laws enacted during the Emergenc...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2020/11/doing-good-in-india-gets-harder.html

The Times of India | September 2020  In 1947, a weary Britain packed up and left India, leaving behind absent-mindedly the English language and a headache for Indians. Ever since, we’ve been...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2020/09/indias-language-conundrum-national.html

 The Times of India | August 2020 There is so much good in the recently announced National Education Policy (NEP) that it seems churlish to point out its failings. It will receive well deserve...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2020/08/one-and-half-cheers-national-education.html

 The Times of India | April 2020 The old idea that civilisation is destroyed from within, not from without, has been turned upside down. In just a few weeks a virus ten-thousandth of a millime...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2020/04/india-faces-sophies-choice-governments.html

 The Times of India | February 2020 Another Republic Day has come and gone, with an unhappy reminder of the tragic gap between our aspirations and the harsh reality. For 70 years we have wante...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2020/02/india-is-free-its-schools-are-not.html

 The Times of India | January 2020 At the beginning of a new decade when so many are feeling so glum, Matt Ridley comes up with the astonishing claim that the past decade was one of the best. ...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2020/01/and-now-good-news-pessimism-isnt.html

 The Times of India | December 2019 November 4, 2019 was a sad day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to walk out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations at t...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2019/12/ten-steps-to-5-trillion-lesson-from.html

 The Times of India | October 2019 The precipitous decline of Congress worries many Indians who believe that choice and a responsible opposition are important. Democracies elsewhere offer a ch...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-search-of-conservative-indian-we-are.html

 The Times of India | September 2019 Capitalism has been on the defensive ever since the global financial crisis of 2007-08. Young people in the West have been turning away from the market sys...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2019/09/is-milton-friedman-dead-not-quite.html

 The Times of India | August 2019 The recent change in the political status of Kashmir has deeply wounded the Kashmiris. There is anger, fear, alienation and loss of self-respect. Many have ad...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2019/08/contra-hindutva-kashmiriyat-how-consent.html

दैनिक भास्कर | 25 जुलाई 2019 कुछ दिनों पहले रविवार की रात एक टीवी शो में एंकर न�...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post_31.html

Times of India | July 16, 2019 On Sunday night the anchor of a TV show sneeringly and repeatedly referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's $5 trillion GDP target. The show was on the poor sta...

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दैनिक भास्कर | जून 14, 2019 नरेन्द्र मोदी के फिर चुने जाने के बाद धीरे-धीरेबढ़ती ...

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The Times of India | May 31, 2019 With the re-election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fears are again being expressed of creeping authoritarianism in India. But i worry about the opposite pr...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2019/06/strong-state-strong-society-reforms.html

Foreign Affairs | April 11, 2019 > Why I Fell Out of Love With India's Reformist Prime Minister India in 2014 was a troubled and discontented nation. Inflation was in the double di...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-modi-mirage.html

the Globalist | December 25, 2018 "Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness," wrote Vladimir Nabokov in the opening lines of his memoir, Speak Memory. N...

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Another series of elections has come and gone. Like an imminent surgery, an election has a way of crowding out all thoughts from the mind and turning the focus of politicians to populism and fre...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-to-rescue-democracy-liberal.html

Times of India | September 12, 2018 - 19:41 My son is gay and i no longer feel reluctant to admit it. He has been in a loyal, happy relationship with his partner for 20 years and my family and...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2018/09/gays-and-colonial-brainwashing-learn.html

In the uproar surrounding last week’s acquisition of Flipkart by Walmart, the true significance of the world’s largest e-commerce deal escaped everyone. Headlines screamed about the coming b...

http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2018/05/amazon-vs-walmart-take-advantage-of.html

संदर्भ... देश के हर वर्ग में बढ़ता रोष व असंतोष और रोजगार बढ़ाने पर पूरा ध्या न ...

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