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Fetters From The Past

The Reserve Bank of India has, finally, corrected a major anomaly in the regulations for private sector banks by allowing…

Don?t Saddle IDBI With IFCI!

Indian companies, especially loss making ones, seem to think that expensive advice from McKinsey & Co is the solution to…

Victims Of A Mediocre Leadership

What an embarrassing week we have been through. What pathetic politics ? from the presidency to the government in Maharashtra,…

Europeans With An Indian Touch

A visit to Croatia confirms that India isn’t the only country with a fractured past. Here, history is a sort…

Slippage On The Fiscal Front

Provisional accounts for 2001-02 show further slippage in tax revenues, and thus on the fiscal front. To recap, the shortfall…

Benefit From Globalisation

One of the most important things to understand in today?s world with its advances in information technology is that while…

An Eminently Avoidable Mess

Ever since the controversy over Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd?s proposed Rs 1,200 crore investment in Tata Teleservices Ltd broke, sharp…

It Is Not OK, Mr Tata

It is most disconcerting to find myself on the same side as telecommunications minister Pramod Mahajan. Last fortnight, I was…

An Encounter With New Age Racism

War clouds at 44 degrees centigrade are not laden with life giving rain, but with the horrors of destruction, confusion…

Operation Clean-up In The US

The US financial markets are in the throes of their biggest clean-up since the crash of 1929. A series of…

On Banks And Your Money

Suppose you visit your bank to encash the fixed deposit of Rs 50,000 made three years ago, and you are…

The Approach to Selling Art

Selling art is a complex business. In essence, a work of art is part of the productive process. It is…

An Open Letter To Sanjay Agarwal

Dear Sanjay,You probably won?t remember me. I met you in the mid-nineties when you were with Lloyds Brokerage, and the…

What Scam? It?s Just A Fraud!

It is scam-season worldwide, but Indian regulators, their well-wishers and the Finance Minister have chosen to remain in denial. First…

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