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Busy
season business |
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With the monsoon approaching
its annual break and festival season nearing, the central bank
gets busy with its mid-year review of the economy and the so-called
“busy season” policy statement. |
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Vittal
statistics |
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The chief vigilance commissioner
N Vittal’s India-specific Corruption Index is a sensible idea
because quantifying corruption enables a rare reformer to effect
change in the system. |
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Understanding
anti-globalisation |
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Understanding the anti-globalisation
protest movement is not easy. There is a temptation to dismiss
the whole bunch as a noisy rabble who lay siege to summit venues
like Seattle, Davos and Genoa. |
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READY
RECKONER: Sunil Jain
Thirty pieces of silver |
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Hats off to General Pervez
Musharraf, is a common enough statement nowadays. He always
manages to convert a crisis into an opportunity. We saw it in
Agra, and we saw it again when he got the United States to grant
all manner of concessions for its support in hunting down Osama
bin Laden. |
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EAVESDROPPER:
Interpreting the political pulse |
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The Bangladeshi intelligence
corps don’t seem to have too much of an ear to the ground. Until
the very end, Sheikh Hasina lived under the benign assurance
that she is coming back for another five year term. |
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