The 17-year span, from 1947 to 1964, of Jawaharlal Nehru’s premiership, took this writer from being an 11-year-old schoolboy to age 28.
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Paromita Vohra: A way to remember
Some artistes generate admiration and acquire cult followings. Others generate love and turn their fans into lovers. The former often messianic in tendency, speak in certitudes.
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The Man Who Saw the Future
Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy as a prime minister is often tarnished by two issues — Kashmir and the China debacle. In recent years, revisionist versions of history have tried to portray that Nehru failed in both these ventures because he devalued the military.
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Modi move a huge blow to purchasing power, may backfire on PM: Swaminathan Aiyer
In a chat with ET Now, Swaminathan Aiyer, Consulting Editor, ET, says there will be some people with black money who will be trapped but there is going to be huge distress on the behalf of lots of ordinary common people holding Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes who will suddenly find they cannot use them.
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Why govt’s demonetisation move may fail to win the war against black money
The demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes is unlikely to help the government suck out black money from the economy as hoarders keep a tiny portion of their ill-gotten wealth in hard cash, going by income-tax data.
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Modi’s Big Cash Withdrawal: Too Much Strain With Very Little Gain
On 8 November, I had less than 2 dollars’ worth of valid currency in my pocket to live on. For one day, this placed me below the World Bank’s poverty line, but quite a bit above the one drawn by the Rangarajan Committee.
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Will Narendra Modi’s big currency-scrapping gamble yield results?
One of the biggest issues which helped Prime Minister Narendra Modi capture power in 2014 was the promise to crack down on corruption and black money. Midway in his tenure, he has announced scrapping of currency notes of Rs.500 and Rs.
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