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Infrastructural leap will transform India for generations to enjoy its gains

It is not a leap of faith, but concerted planning and implementation that have seen India emerge as an infrastructural superpower. There’s more on the anvil. Rajiv Narayan It is inappropriate to start a column with a personal vignette, but I am nonetheless doing so, for I spent the last 15 days visiting various hospitals in and around Delhi-NCR trying to find out what was wrong with my missus (apart from her temperament and ...

India’s UPI transactions account for 86 percent of GDP

A chance episode a few years back ushered me and much of India into a new era—where digital technology now possesses us and has changed our world Rajeev Narayan It takes but a tweak to bring about discernable change. For me, this happened a few years back, when the missus and I could not find a cab to return home from the Press Club in Delhi. Well a mite past midnight, an auto-rickshaw pulled up and asked where we would like to g...

India at 77 years: We have Miles to go before we sleep

It is time to be gracious, as India has come a long way. Sure, the distance yet to be covered is long, but a good foundation leads to good living and global love Rajeev Narayan Today, we celebrate the 77th year of India’s independence, our independence, when Indians are allowed to freely walk down India’s streets without remonstration or rebuke, and always with gay abandon. Don’t sell this point short, or comment on m...

Access to US critical technologies is a big push for India's growth story

Rajeev Narayan/ It takes but a tweak to bring about discernable change—and here, we should surely consider what bringing down the wall did not just to Germany but to Europe too. A similar beginning was made a few days back by India when National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was welcomed into the White House by his counterpart Jake Sullivan to launch the ‘next milestone’. What is this milestone? Well, to br...

Fuel prices are out of control

Rajeev Narayan Around Diwali last year, with assembly elections looming in five states, we got a bumper gift from the powers that be, with the Government buckling under political pressure and reducing excise duties on petrol and diesel, bringing both fuel types under the Rs 100-per-liter mark. A few weeks after the results, price hikes are back and this time around, they are steep and ferocious. This is even...

Rights and privileges of start-ups and small businesses

Rajeev Narayan First awakenings can be rude and testy, for they instill in many a feeling of outrage and indignation. Do you want examples? Well, it happened to Indian cricket in this year’s T20 World Cup, when India lost miserably to Pakistan in their very first outing; the result was verbal and physical mayhem across the nation, especially on social media. In June last year, it happened to India’s farme...

Crypto-currency: Shining or Whining?

Rajeev Narayan Many moons back, I met Pramod Mahajan, the then India’s Union Minister for Information and Technology, in the grand Parliament House. I was then Editor of Asia’s largest IT magazine, and Mahajan was being conferred with the ‘IT Man of the Year’ award by us. Asked why Indian IT had done remarkably well globally, Mahajan laughed inimitably and said: “That’s because the Gover...

Rendezvous with the Himalayan tragedy

Rajeev Narayan Bhimtal is beautiful. Nestled in the hills just above Corbett Park and just below the popular hill station of Nainital, it is appropriately situated indeed. You can scoot off to Ranikhet or Almora, or you can scooter across to Saat-taal or Naukuchia-taal. I did so the other weekend as well. But I was reminded a bitter lesson; that when the Gods hit home, they hit rather hard. And they have been hitting very, very hard for th...

COVID 19 – The Next Coming

Rajeev Narayan MONDAYS WITH RAJEEV The number of positive Coronavirus cases has been quietly creeping up again over the last few days, after being southward-bound for some weeks. The average Indian, though, seems to have decided that the worst is over and is living it up again. This is a disaster just waiting to happen, much as we would like to ignore it No one likes to be a doomsayer and the harbinger of bad news,...

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