Kunal

The elections of May 2014 saw the 10-year old UPA government suffer a crushing defeat and the Narandra Modi-led NDA come to power on a wave of support. In the eighteen months that have elapsed since then, there has been much thunder and lightening, mostly from the media, about the failings and victories of the NDA government, on a...

Ever since the elections of May 2014 threw up an unprecedented majority for the NDA, the expectations among the people of India have been high. But while the radical reforms that were looked for by certain analysts have been struggling through the sinuous twists of a bi-cameral legislature, non-legislative initiatives like the ‘Shwachh Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’ campaigns...

It was as far back as 1726, that the inevitability of taxes was pointed out by the author Daniel Defoe, when he wrote, Things as certain as Death and Taxes, can be more firmly believ’d. More than half-a-century later, Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, and among the authors of its constitution, wrote in...

Youth is when you’re supposed to make mistakes. Some mistakes you get forgiven for, and others you do not. Financial mistakes fall firmly in the latter category. Fail to do right by your money when you are young and active, and your money is more than likely to desert you when you are old and tired. Today, we shall go...

I think there would hardly have been a cricket-lover in India who would not have salivated at the prospect of an India-South Africa four-test series. After all, these two teams have, between them, some of the finest players in the world cricket today. On the batting side, we have the classy Hashim Amla, South Africa’s captain, India’s own Virat Kohli,...