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The Moor?s Last Sigh

It is no secret that the high point of economic reforms was 1995-96 and there has been a general slide…

The Bank As A Grocery Store

It?s a holiday and you?ve spent the day lazing around. Evening time, and you want to go for a stroll…

What Our Trade Balance Is Telling Us

Stubborn misrepresentation seems to have seized most people while interpreting the trade numbers for this year. Slow growth in imports,…

Strong-arm Tactics Don?t Always Work

After some behind-the-scenes pushing, the Sterlite Industries scrip re-opened for trading last Friday marking a very important victory for minority…

The Nayika As A Woman

The Nayika is perhaps the most pedestrian theme since the 18th and 19th century miniatures, to be outdone only by…

A Return To The Dark Ages

What a breath of fresh air ? in a city stifled with self appointed VIPs strutting about oozing pomposity, with…

Another Attempt To Cripple Regulators

India?s experiment with the creation of independent regulators has ranged from moderately successful to disastrous. But instead of strengthening the…

For Reforms To Succeed…

India stayed with inward-looking policies leveraged on State centralisation and missed in the late 1960s, the bus of manufacturing relocation…

Displeasure In Denmark

Some years ago, a Dutch diplomat queried a group of us over lunch about Kashmir: why does India not resume…

Issues Before The Doctor

Next week, when Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, Dr Bimal Jalan, unveils the credit policy for the second half…

The Poison Fruit Of Procrastination

Last Friday, the chief ministers of state governments made no bones. If the Union government could throw good taxpayers? money…

Uma Bharti Does Have A Point

The disinvestment of public sector undertakings (PSUs) continues to spring new surprises. It also demonstrates that unless the disinvestment ministry…

Making Art An Investment

Art, the world over, is a good investment today. The reason, of course, is the derelictions and scams that characterise…

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