Shekhar Gupta wrote a post :

How many of us even remember the Communists still rule a state in India?Or that we have a chief minister who is serving his fourth consecutive term in office, and whose strength increases with each election?Ok, some hints: he is the first chief minister in the North-East to fully withdraw Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), his state has put behind a history of ethnic violence and insurgency, and beginning with the lowest social indicators in the country, it has among the best in many areas now. His state, in fact, has almost 100 per cent literacy now and an per capita income very close t ...more3 years ago

Shekhar Gupta wrote a post :

The Rao-Manmohan Singh reforms triggered a process of creative destruction of corporate India that annihilated many legacy companies and businesses that thrived in the licence-quota raj. But reforms gifted us an environment where much new entrepreneurship could emerge and grow. Since then Indian economy and markets have grown phenomenally.That post-1991 destruction has, therefore, been entirely virtuous.I am now sensing that a fresh round of similar creative destruction is beginning in corporate India. If in 1991 it was caused by the dismantling of the licence-quota raj, now technology is its ...more4 years ago