“Lack of attention paid to school education, healthcare and light industry. This was at the core of Nehru's failure. East Asia succeeded because it gave prime importance to these three areas at a lower level of per-capita income. Nehru put all of government's resources in heavy industry. The Modi government is putting a lot of resources into what are mostly capital-intensive industries like semiconductors and automobiles, through PLIs and associated schemes.”
— Dhiraj Nayyar, The Economic Times (5/9)
“The Delhi High Court's decision to deny bail, once again, to former university scholar Umar Khalid and others in the "larger conspiracy" case relating to the 2020 Delhi riots is a grim affirmation of how special security laws, combined with a deferential judiciary, can transform pre-trial detention into extended punishment.”
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