Ravi Shanker Kapoor

Economists, industry representatives, and other stakeholders regularly offer counsel to the government on how to frame and execute economic policy. Sometimes, the government pays heed to their recommendations.

On its centennial anniversary, criticism of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been on expected lines. Much of it is unfair and pointless. On a very critical issue, however, RSS has not received as much flak...

While the centenary celebrations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) occupied a lot of space in political debate and media, the 125th birth anniversary of Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) on October 25 went unnoticed. This was not...

As every year, the alarmingly high air quality index (AQI) continues to torment people in Delhi-NCR. The stubbornness of air pollution in winters is the consequence of two causes: wrong, misleading diagnosis; and incompetence and worse of the authorities at all levels.

After tasting success in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, we are now planning to Chennai market from January, says Pratap Varma, founder of Frissly

Infrastructure financing is one of the safest financing segments in India, says Jyoti Prakash Gadia, MD, Resurgent India Limited

A war wages in Iran, yet New Delhi seems to lack a consistent Middle East policy. Days before the United States and Israel attacked Iran, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel, which was construed as...

Days after the government’s decision to take over the Delhi Gymkhana Club was challenged in the court, Union housing & urban affairs minister Manohar Lal asserted that the government can take back its leased land...

Discussions on the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran' seem to ignore or downplay the treacherous role Pakistan has played in the peace talks. So treacherous that it helped transform Iran's military rout into its strategic victory.

As the United States celebrates 250 years of its Independence today, it is worth scrutinizing the Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776. Specifically, we focus on 35 words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Authored by Thomas Jefferson, a founding father of the American republic and its third president, these are the most consequential lines ever written in the history of mankind.