MJ Akbar writes
Nehru refused to offer Indian Muslims the gift he had given to Indian Hindus; there was no Muslim Code Bill. It is perfectly true that social legislation in Muslim personal law was much in advance of the rights of Hindu women until Nehru altered the dynamic. But it would be self-delusional to suggest [...]
No one really cares about it.
In an interim order, the Delhi High Court allowed private unaided schools in the national capital to charge the increased fee from their students…The Court, however, made it clear that it is only an interim order and if it came to the conclusion that fee is excessive then schools have [...]
Given that I have a huge writer’s block, but an equally voracious reading need – I thought it best to copy my co-blogger Polaris’s idea of memos so that I can talk briefly about multiple links in one post – rather than try to force-create one post for each link.
*** SEZs and crony capitalism
The [...]
Reading today’s MINT I came across two articles – in the shipping/ports industry, the government first sets prices and then subsidizes the industry.
1. Devesh Kapoor, Arvind Subramaniam and Partha Mukhopadhyay add further intellectual firepower to the concept of implementing direct cash transfers in place of existing welfare programs like NREGA in India in this paper
2. The concept of block grants that was a successful part of the American welfare reform in 1996. It basically means that a [...]
Here it is.
Arvind Kejriwal, a man I highly respect, writes that there is a reason why voters are apathetic
For example, can you as a citizen do anything if a school teacher does not turn up to teach at your local government school? If a doctor in a government hospital does not attend to patients? If a ration-shopkeeper [...]
