Gautam Mukherjee

Gautam Mukherjee Advocates and cat's paws of change are trying it on social media, virally growing in importance in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a major presence on it, directly tweeting his observations, without distorting…
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Gautam Mukherjee  A consolidation in governance towards effecting strong deliveries across the board should be setting in just about anytime now. There have been indeed many, and continuous, preparatory moves, scattered across the first…
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Gautam Mukherjee Brookings Institution's Bruce Riedel thinks it is now an India-America alliance versus a Pakistan-China one. He says Barack Obama's America is once again showing a preference for India over Pakistan, like in fellow…
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Gautam Mukherjee When India became independent, to our credit, not all the Congress stalwarts counted themselves as Leftist. Many, like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, C Rajagopalachari, Rajendra Prasad, amongst the notables, were decidedly…
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Gautam Mukherjee Is the bulk of the mainstream media reflecting the changes in the vox populi, or getting stuck in an endless repetition of 'yesterday's papers'? What excuse does it have to root vigorously for a Congress line, when its…
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Gautam Mukherjee The gap between the expectation and the pace of economic reform is widening. Things are not moving fast enough and there is no clear-cut road map. Small administrative and economic improvements have kept coming, but these…
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Gautam Mukherjee There is a strategic need to increase the size, depth and sophistication of our stock markets. Right now, it is about as poised as a determined little girl tottering about in her mother's high heels. We may not be able to…
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Gautam Mukherjee While the Modi Government may want to provide housing and toilets for all by 2022, and launch 100 Smart Cities shortly, the housing sector today is both in an unregulated mess and in dire financial straits. Two things…
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Gautam Mukherjee George Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, extolled the virtues of audacity, first, as it is recorded, followed later by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and US General Patton, later still.  'Audacity of Hope' was also…
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Gautam Mukherjee The Indian-American relationship has always been strangely awkward. Indian students love studying in the Ivy League colleges of America, either on scholarships, or at an enormous expense, and Americans, on their part,…
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