What it'll take to stay on track
This is a crucial testing time for Indian Railways' financial management, since the budget for 2001-2 for the final year of the ninth five-year plan is to be framed on the basis of a nearly failed current year's budget.

Who let the dogs out?
This is not to say that those who can, do, and those who can't, become venture capitalists. But there is an urgent need to bring a thorny issue out into the open: now that your VC has you by the short and curly, how much management control should you hand over?

Now panic at leisure
If it did not border on the alarming, there would be something almost amusing about the panic in government about the impending removal of all import restrictions from April 1.