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Articles by Sanjoy Narayan
If we hobble Right to Information, then we hobble India’s democracy
It took nearly 15 years for India’s Right to Information Act (RTI) to finally become a law in 2005 after the late VP Singh (who was India’s prime minister briefly) first stressed the importance of a law that would give citizens the right to seek and get information.
Updated on Apr 12, 2015 11:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
PM Modi on governance, diplomacy and business
In his first interview to the Indian media since becoming Prime Minister in May last year, Modi spoke to Hindustan Times on a wide range of questions.
Updated on Apr 10, 2015 01:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan and Shishir Gupta, New Delhi
Red tape unacceptable, rules are same for Ambani and common man: PM
In his first interview to the Indian media after becoming Prime Minister, Modi told Hindustan Times that his government doesn't believe in removing red tape only for some. He said: "Red tape nahin hona chahiye matlab Mukesh Ambani ke liye red tape na ho aur ek common man ke liye red tape ho, waisa nahin chal sakta (red tape should not be there does not mean it shouldn't be there for Mukesh Ambani, but be there for a common man; that won't do)." Here is how PM Modi spends his day
Updated on Apr 10, 2015 01:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan and Shishir Gupta, New Delhi
Reversing UPA-era decline, restoring faith in India achievement: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday his 10-month administration had been able to reverse all that ailed India's economy and government at the end of the UPA's 10 years in power.
Updated on Apr 09, 2015 10:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan and Shishir Gupta, New Delhi
Full text of PM Narendra Modi's HT interview
In his first interview to the Indian media after he became PM, Narendra Modi speaks to Hindustan Times Editor-in-Chief Sanjoy Narayan and Executive Editor Shishir Gupta about a range of issues.
Updated on Apr 09, 2015 08:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan and Shishir Gupta, New Delhi
HT Exclusive: BJP-PDP alliance in J-K one of the most important developments, says Modi
India is open to dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues but in an environment free of violence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, in comments that could breathe fresh life into frozen ties between the nuclear-armed rivals.
Updated on Apr 09, 2015 02:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan and Shishir Gupta, New Delhi
Single fare, double journey: PM Modi’s mantra for tours abroad
In his first interview to a newspaper since becoming the PM, Modi said the three countries were major economies and had great relevance to the development and growth process of India.
Updated on Apr 09, 2015 09:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan and Shishir Gupta, New Delhi
Giriraj Singh row: For the record, nothing is ‘off the record’ anymore
Giriraj Singh’s first response after making despicable comments about Congress president Sonia Gandhi was not an apology but an expression of indignation delivered with misplaced candour: he thought what he had remarked to reporters during an informal chat would be “off the record”.
Updated on Apr 05, 2015 11:08 AM IST
What can burst the bullish balloon about India’s surge
India’s economy, if analysts are to be believed, could be on the verge of a surge. Its growth rate could outstrip China’s, which has been slowing down, and beat other emerging markets, notably Brazil and Russia, about both of which forecasters are downbeat.
Updated on Mar 22, 2015 01:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
How Arvind Kejriwal governs in Delhi matters, not AAP’s rift
In early January 2014, less than two weeks after Arvind Kejriwal had been sworn in as Delhi’s chief minister for the first time, a few of us went to meet him in his office at the Delhi Secretariat building.
Updated on Mar 15, 2015 09:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
The taxman should come calling on more of us
Budgets routinely had proposals to scrutinise transactions such as credit card purchases, cheque payments, bank transfers and even fixed deposits, all of which involved money that was lawfully accounted for. That sort of approach, instead of dissuading people from resorting to unaccounted transactions, encouraged them to avoid tax and generate black money.
Updated on Mar 08, 2015 01:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
Dalal Street's happy hours shouldn't bother the finance minister
Saturdays are holidays for the Bombay Stock Exchange, which remains shut for the weekend, but next Saturday when finance minister Arun Jaitley rises in Parliament to present the Narendra Modi government’s first full-year budget, the stock market will be open for trading.
Updated on Feb 22, 2015 10:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Alarming Air Pollution is what Kejriwal must fight
For Kejriwal, there could be another pressing reason to tackle pollution in the city that he has just won: politics. The most vulnerable to the risks of urban air pollution are the cities poorest — many of whom are the real aam aadmi who’ve reposed their faith in AAP, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Feb 15, 2015 01:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Why finance minister Arun Jaitley’s second budget has to be bold
In the din over the Delhi elections, which should be of little interest to those not living there, the upcoming Union budget, which will likely have a far more widespread impact, appears to have been forgotten, at least by much of media, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Feb 08, 2015 10:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Delhi's new boss will have to work against the odds
For a CM, running Delhi can be tricky business. First, owing to the limited jurisdiction of the state government but also because the reporting manager for all the civic agencies, the police and the DDA is the lieutenant-governor (L-G), who is appointed by the President but chosen by the Centre.
Updated on Jan 25, 2015 12:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Why the NDA’s ordinance factory is not a good idea
It’s what you can probably call governance by ordinance. In the seven months since the Narendra Modi government came to power in May 2014, its Cabinet cleared 11 ordinances, 10 of which have already become law after the President of India promulgated them, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Jan 18, 2015 09:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Why the Indian consumer is an unprotected species
For setting right their grievances Indian consumers have few options. Seeking justice in consumer courts is usually a long and tedious process with cases sometimes taking decades to get settled, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Jan 11, 2015 12:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Promises to keep, politics at play
When politicians promise people too much too soon they also run the risk of ending up making everyone sorely bitter if those promises aren’t fulfilled, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Jan 11, 2015 12:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
India can be a spoke in the world's manufacturing wheel
China is the world’s factory and is eons ahead of India, which shouldn’t harbour wild dreams of rivalling that. India should look at unconventional solutions, such as the one 3D printing offers, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Dec 28, 2014 12:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
Losing game? The BJP's own goals may not amuse the referee
In the last couple of weeks a few members of Parliament, all from the ruling side, showed off their prowess at scoring own goals, writes HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Dec 21, 2014 01:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
For the real ‘green shoots’ look at who’s getting hired
Recruiters say the drive to hire employees is often triggered not by actual investment or expansion but on the expectation of that happening - a bit like how the Sensex rises on anticipation of good things happening, writes HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Dec 07, 2014 01:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
Once more with feeling as Obama comes calling
Modi’s visit to the US — the official meetings as well as the exuberant unofficial events — has reignited US interest in India and many believe that could be the starting point for both countries to build on, writes HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Nov 30, 2014 12:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
Missing the point: Congress could do with a bit of orchestration
Congress leaders have called Modi’s Swachch Bharat movement 'a photo op'. Instead of carping about it, the Congress itself could do with a bit of orchestration, writes HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Nov 24, 2014 04:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
Wanted: New mantra for ‘Make in India’
The real reshaping of India could begin with a shift to renewable energy such as solar power, which doesn’t depend on fossil fuels, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Nov 21, 2014 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
Our children could drive the Clean India movement
Changing the behaviour and attitudes of older Indians may not be easy. That is why PM Narendra Modi’s Clean India Movement should begin at the bottom, with our children. HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan writes.
Updated on Nov 09, 2014 09:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Black money case: It's an economic problem, keep politics out of it
Rooting out black money will be tough for any government. Widening the tax base and lowering the rates will help but there would be political and social risks, writes HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Nov 02, 2014 08:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
BJP means business, becoming permanently poll-ready
Whether the BJP achieves its mission to have an ‘India sans Congress’ will be watched keenly as a dozen states go to the polls in the coming months, writes HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Oct 26, 2014 11:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
Fixing the economy: 6 bullets that Modi govt must bite
The PM's sound bites do send out the right signals to local and foreign investors but if Modi wants to spur investments, boost growth and create jobs, his government will have to bite some bullets, many of them not sugarcoated, writes Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Oct 12, 2014 05:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan
It's power to bureaucrats in Narendra Modi govt
The real Gujarat Model that is being replicated by Modi is not about development but about his style of governance. You needn’t look much further than Raisina Hill to see why, writes Editor-In-Chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Oct 05, 2014 02:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan, New Delhi
‘Make in India’ means real work, not just 'jugaad'
Indian business has largely chosen to jettison attempts to innovate in manufacturing or develop a culture for doing so in favour of adopting what is known locally as ‘jugaad’, a simple workaround that gets the job done, writes HT editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan.
Updated on Sep 28, 2014 12:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjoy Narayan