The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi forced the Congress (I) to a situation where there was no ready-made scion to take over, no coronation to take place; for the first time they had to elect their own leader to run the...
The major thrust to privatisation arrived in the era of neoliberalism in the 1980s, and soon a policy argument emerged that saw privatisation a necessary step to strengthen the economy. It was perhaps a political tool to...
