Monthly Archives: October 1991

While it is only natural that the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, as we have known it, should have provoked a debate on India’s own future foreign and defence policies, it is clearly premature to draw firm and long-term conclusions. No one can … Read More →

It is a mere coincidence that the Narasimha Rao government’s decision on job reservations for ‘other backward castes’ and the poor among the ‘forward castes’ has come in the wake of dramatic moves by it to liberate the country’s economy from the stranglehold of the permit-license Raj. But it is … Read More →