Chirag Patnaik

CNN-News18 — I read with interest a piece by BJD MP Baijayant Panda on the subject of Rajya Sabha reform. Two reactions that were predictably thrown up. One says we need to reform. The other says we don't. Reform these days is the in word. Easy to wield. As a club.

Business Standard — A lot has been said about Free Basics, the free limited internet program by Facebook and its telecom partners. Mostly by people opposing it. Facebook is (reportedly) spending Rs. 100 crore and using its own properties to make it a success. It is ironical that people who claim to be avowedly pro-market are the loudest opponents of Free Basics.

Business Standard — Read more about Net neutrality decision: 'Haves' have prevented the 'Have nots' from accessing the internet on Business Standard. Trai could have instituted a framework for differential pricing that would have enabled innovation but it did not do that under public pressure

theleaflet.in — A few days ago, the newly formed Congress government in Rajasthan headed by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, repealed a rule by the previous the BJP government, that prevented people without a secondary education from contesting Panchayat and other elections. A move that should have drawn universal applause, except from the usual suspects in the Sangh ...

Business Standard — So you heard about the latest snooping scam which implicates business houses and politicians for collusion, AKA good old-fashioned corruption. Did you wonder how so many phone numbers across (presumably) multiple networks got tapped and got recorded. Legally, there is only one way to tap a phone.

newscentral24x7.com — From ex-RBI governor Raghuram Rajan to nobel laureate Amartya Sen, most experts had criticised the policy. However, there are enough public personalities have been quite vehement in their support of the disastrous move. Twitter user Chirag Patnaik (@Chirag) has compiled a list of such 'experts' who had lauded demonetisation as a success, or as he puts it, "who all supported this insanity called ?

LinkedIn — In the book "Clash of Civilisations and the remaking of the world order" Samuel P Huntington wrote: "The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion [...] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners ne

newscentral24x7.com — In the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, not a day went by when worthies in the Sangh brotherhood ecosystem and some "independent journalists" didn't miss a chance to tell us as to how badly the defence ministry was under the UPA and how AK Antony was the worst defence minister in the country's history.

newscentral24x7.com — In the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, not a day went by when worthies in the Sangh brotherhood ecosystem and some "independent journalists" didn't miss a chance to tell us as to how badly the defence ministry was under the UPA and how AK Antony was the worst defence minister in the country's history.