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  • column-upa-can-go-ahead-if-it-wants

    Friday 22 Mar '13From diesel hikes to clearing projects, a large number of reforms do not need any legislative sanction.
  • column-plan-to-waste

    Wednesday 27 Feb '13Plan expenditure is not the same as capital expenditure, and offers lots of scope for cuts in FY14.
  • column-from-foxconn-to-nokia-and-more

    Friday 08 Feb '13If part of Apple’s profits were to be considered transfer pricing between it and Foxconn, who’d want to manufacture in China?
  • column-time-to-say-jai-kisan-again

    Tuesday 05 Feb '13Believe it or not, India’s share of global agriculture trade is greater than its share of manufacturing trade.
  • column-broadbanned

    Friday 01 Feb '13If usage were to rise to global levels, limited spectrum means India can’t meet even half its broadband targets.
  • column-twostep-india

    Wednesday 19 Dec '12We want reservations in even promotions and yet want to be globally competitive.
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  • column-lipstick-on-a-pig

    Tuesday 18 Dec '12No one is going to lend to new investments if the existing ones remain in the kind of trouble they are in today.
  • column-wholesale-victory

    Thursday 06 Dec '12The vote in Parliament shows India’s open to business, as is the political class.
  • column-forget-disinvestment-think-wheat

    Tuesday 27 Nov '12The finance minister can get R20,000 crore by exporting 10 mn tonnes—the alternative is letting it rot.
  • column-focus-on-india-inc-not-psu-inc

    Thursday 22 Nov '12PSU investments relatively OK, it’s private ones that have collapsed, and govt investment could go same way.
  • column-killing-the-telecom-goose

    Tuesday 06 Nov '12Government hiked annual charges in lieu of no upfront fees but insisting on both together is asking for trouble.
  • column-what-is-this-level-playing-field-

    Friday 19 Oct '12Almost everything, from caste reservations to A Raja’s telecom fudge and now spectrum refarming, is justified using this.
  • column-a-rock-and-a-hard-place

    Thursday 11 Oct '12Between Jayanthi Natarajan and Arun Jaitley, the government has its hands more than full.
  • column-getting-real-about-retail

    Friday 05 Oct '12A small note to Arun Jaitley, asking for clarity on his somewhat unidimensional arguments against FDI in retail.
  • column-getting-the-macro-right

    Tuesday 18 Sep '12That means more disinvestment in the case of India, and higher German wages and a looser monetary policy in the case of Europe.
  • column-dialling-destruction

    Tuesday 04 Sep '12Telcos need to book 10 subscribers to get 1 to stay, raising sales expenses hugely and putting industry in deep trouble.
  • column-watch-that-budget-unravel

    Tuesday 21 Aug '12If even the optimistic Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council hasn’t given a fiscal deficit target while giving one for almost every other thing, there is a good reason.
  • column-bending-the-constitution-backwards

    Wednesday 15 Aug '12From the Hindu rate of growth to reservations in promotions, India remains stuck in the past in so many ways.
  • column-monsoon-lessons-for-opposition

    Friday 10 Aug '12Only if the economy does well, can they spend more in the states they run—that goes for Sonia Gandhi too.
  • column-monsoon-lessons-for-opposition

    Thursday 09 Aug '12Only if the economy does well, can they spend more in the states they run—that goes for Sonia Gandhi too.
  • column-dot-loses-the-plot

    Monday 16 Jul '12Apart from the old level playing field argument, what’s amazing is DoT seems to think no auctions were held before 2001.
  • column-the-importance-of-being-pk-tayal

    Monday 09 Jul '12Why blame government-owned banks, even Sebi and RBI have fallen for his seductive charms.
  • column-the-gas-in-our-exploration-policy

    Friday 06 Jul '12The government is understandably perturbed about the sharp hike in Reliance Industries’ capital costs in the KG Basin and the equally sharp fall in its production—and now even the reserve estimates, following Niko’s statement—but it has largely itself to blame.
  • column-a-to-z-of-india-s-reforms-agenda

    Tuesday 26 Jun '12Aviation FDI, Bonds of RIB kind, Cairn’s expansion approval, DMICDC clearance, there’s an easy shortlist.
  • column-presidential-tangle

    Thursday 21 Jun '12Though it is not quite clear whether Trai chief Rahul Khullar will support the claim made by his predecessor—that the impact of the steep hike in reserve prices for the auction of 2G spectrum will be just 4.4 paise per minute—the EGoM which meets on this later today is unlikely to be the final arbiter either.