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Ravi Shanker Kapoor

Ravi Shanker Kapoor

- Opinion
- March 25, 2025, 2:41 PM IST
Opinion | Why India Inc Shouldn’t Lobby For Protectionism
Lower tariffs have the potential to galvanise the Indian economy
- Opinion
- March 14, 2025, 9:04 AM IST
Opinion | Why Maharashtra’s Experiment With Fiscal Prudence Is Admirable
One of the major concerns in Indian state finances is the prevalence of populist schemes that, while politically attractive, strain public coffers and often fail to deliver long-term economic benefits
- Opinion
- March 8, 2025, 5:30 PM IST
Opinion | Why India Is Failing To Attract Investment Despite Favourable Conditions
Retrospective taxation and investor fears of regulatory overreach are undermining government efforts, hindering growth and job creation. A change in approach is urgently needed
- Opinion
- March 1, 2025, 6:56 PM IST
Opinion | Streamlining Governance: Why We Need A DOGE In India
Just because something is difficult doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be done. The Indian government has significant bureaucratic flab that needs to be trimmed
- Opinion
- February 22, 2025, 3:58 PM IST
Opinion | New Government In Delhi: Will It Curb Freebie Culture?
With AAP devoting its energy and time to distributing old freebies and devising new ones, the party’s top brass forgot that it was elected to govern. Governance and development were almost entirely ignored
- Opinion
- February 7, 2025, 1:12 PM IST
Opinion | Defunding USAID Will Starve Islamists Of Funds
US President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze the funds of the United States Agency for International Development will help in defanging the Left and Islamists at the global level
- Opinion
- January 29, 2025, 4:40 PM IST
Opinion | No Guilt, No Shame: Pakistan’s Response To The Grooming Gang Scandal
The Pakistani government, media, and Muslims of Pakistani origin in Britain remain firmly in denial, and, typically, they are using the worn-out shield of racism and ‘Islamophobia’ to shield themselves from reality
- Opinion
- January 21, 2025, 4:35 PM IST
Opinion | Trump 2.0: Will Donald Be Able To Make A Difference This Time?
In Trump’s second term, efforts will be made to curtail the influence of deep state officials who are often hand-in-glove with the military-industrial complex
- Opinion
- January 17, 2025, 1:40 PM IST
Opinion | George Soros: From Philanthropist To Misanthrope
Soros’s descent, from a champion of liberty in Eastern Europe in the 1980s to an anarchist in Europe and the US today, is indeed distressing.
- Opinion
- January 7, 2025, 3:47 PM IST
Opinion | Land Versus Faith War Rages In Pakistan
Pakistanis are unable to acknowledge the simple fact that Mahmud Ghaznavi, just like other Muslim marauders, was a tormenter of their ancestors
- Opinion
- December 31, 2024, 10:00 AM IST
Opinion | Synthetic Milk: Normalising The Evil
Milkmen have been mixing water with milk since immemorial, but this traditional adulteration is nothing compared to the hideous innovation called synthetic milk
- Opinion
- December 27, 2024, 6:41 PM IST
Opinion | Manmohan Singh: The Man Who Dared To Ditch Socialist Dogmas
Singh had the boldness and foresight to discard Nehruvian dogmas and embrace the true philosophy of a free economy
- Opinion
- December 17, 2024, 5:51 PM IST
Opinion | UNRWA Supports Hamas
For UN czars, the evilness of Israel is an article of faith
- Opinion
- December 7, 2024, 6:45 PM IST
Opinion | India, US Unlikely To Tolerate Yunus’ Duplicity For Long
There will be more pressure on Muhammad Yunus’ Islamist-friendly regime in the foreseeable future. For the world, especially India and the US, has seen the ignoble truth behind the Nobel façade
- Opinion
- November 27, 2024, 4:56 PM IST
Opinion | Moral Equivalence: ICC’s Warrant Against Netanyahu
Trump 2.0 would be a big relief for Israel, but its troubles are unlikely to end any time soon. For, political and intellectual elites have imbibed dangerous doctrines like moral equivalence

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