RAILWAY BUDGET The Finance Minister has dressed up the Indian Railways’ balance sheet, indulged in tokenism and in grand projections R. Elangovan The budget reveals a shocking collapse of the Railways’ revenues and shows that no significant investments are likely to be initiated to build its n
Union Budget: Railways Off-track Budget R. ElangovanThe Union Budget’s focus on the Indian Railways is cursory. An exercise in obfuscation, it reveals utter neglect of India’s largest enterprise.
Railways Train of neglectR. ELANGOVANJaitley’s Budget offers little to railway passengers or businesses and is marked by a singular failure to address the deep faults in the system that
Bullet train project Chasing a chimeraR. ELANGOVANThe bullet train project is being undertaken at a time when a significant proportion of the Indian Railways’ assets are in a state of utter disrepai
Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o
SlideshowLiving on the edgeThey are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
