The economy is still fragile | HT Editorial

Financial sector stability and low demand remain key challenges

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To build Gurugram of tomorrow, the city must move out of cars

In Gurugram, the despair came on Monday morning as the traffic squad of a local developer with acres of property on either side of the junction removed the traffic circulation plan.

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Three templates Rahul Gandhi and Congress can replicate | Opinion

If he does quit as Congress president, a more compelling parallel for Rahul Gandhi could be the one of PV Narasimha Rao who, after the party’s 1996 defeat, gave up the top organisational office.

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Veer Savarkar should not be treated as a hate figure

Savarkar was a radical and his Hindutva too was a radical break in the Hindu thought: anti-caste, reformist, modernist and futuristic. It was a modern Hindu response to the modern world

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Modi must advance national security

He must take hard decisions on fundamental reforms to change India’s image as a Soft State

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PM-elect Modi must use his mandate to resolve Indo-US trade tussles

While Washington was prepared to continue these talks with whichever party won the elections, many analysts argued that the BJP and Modi were “more open to aligning with US regional strategy” of balancing China and “more energetic in pursuing economic reforms”

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Modi has a chance to create history | Opinion

The Prime Minister can do this by putting up a performance that is better than any of his predecessors.

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Opinion | The Congress finds itself in a familiar place

All the Congress has to do to start the process is to answer two fundamental and related questions. One, what does it stand for? This has to be more than the party’s heritage or its long association with one family. The second question is: what is its purpose? Does it have a larger purpose revolving around the country and its people?

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The gender agenda before Parliament

The first thing the Modi government should in the area of gender is to tackle the jobs crisis which has affected women across the board. There is a crisis of jobs all around in India and this is more acute in the case of women who often lack the education and skills to compete

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The new India born from Modi's mandate

Modi’s admirers claim this is a truly indigenous vision of India. Nehru’s, they say, was elite and western. Perhaps, though I’m not sure I agree. What is undeniable, however, is that Modi’s India is more aspirational and less dependent and it is turning its back on feudal or upper class entitlement.

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Word of the week by Shashi Tharoor: This week's word, Claque

What’s claque and how does one use this word in a conversation? Shashi Tharoor tells us in his weekly column ‘Word Of The Week’

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A Calmer You, by Sonal Kalra: Badly Wanted-Election Detox

Kya aap analysis pe analysis karke thak chuke hain, pak chuke hain?

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The Congress must realise it can't fight an ideological battle through policy

The real challenge for the Congress is its unwillingness to be courageous and articulate an ideological counterpoint to the BJP’s hegemony. And without this alternative, the BJPs hegemony is going to continue, unchallenged.

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Factors that contributed to Modi's remarkable electoral victory in 2019

In terms of marketing, and as an indefatigable campaigner, PM Modi is in a league of his own

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Opinion | Seven ways to unpack Modi's handsome victory

The story of Modi’s rise and rise cannot be told without chronicling the abject failure of the Congress and the complacency of its leadership. Even in the three states it won in the December assembly elections, the party was unable to consolidate its position

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Opinion| Can India grow now and clean up later? No, it can't

India’s GDP is a third of China’s but we already have worse air pollution than China. India cannot grow in a manner oblivious to the environmental character of that growth, without making the country unliveable and undercutting the basis for future economic prosperity

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Opinion | Probity in campaign, polite political discourse a tough ask

The practice of trying to expose the skeletons in each other’s cupboard has become a favourite political past time. This is both shocking and frightening.

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Four key reasons why PM Modi is in the game for a second term | Opinion

All upper castes have consolidated behind Modi. They see in Modi’s BJP a force not just for Hindutva, but for what they see as “merit”, which they fear the minorities and the “less meritorious” lower castes will take away because of their voting power.

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Narendra Modi may win, but BJP's campaign diminished us

I’ve no idea who’s going to win the elections but I’m fairly certain who’s lost the campaign. The answer is Narendra Modi

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A government which lacks iqbal invites lawlessness

If the government does not command respect, the law will not be respected either. I haven’t heard any discussion of the prevailing lawlessness in this election

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