N Hariharan's blog

OUR Mumbai correspondent, has chronicled the successes and the failures of every Indian Prime Minister, including Nehru. Watching Modi’s determination to bring 100 million Indian households out of poverty by 2022, he sees India emerging as a future superpower . . . 

MUMBAI — India's Budget  for the 2016-17 fiscal year is aimed at uplifting the farmers and rural  poor.  The agrarian poor constitute 92 per cent of the population and the ruling party needs their support to win State Assembly elections to be held in 2016 . . .