A Christmas beyond Santa Claus Merry Christmas! Christmas carols, goodies from Santa Claus, sumptuous dinners, interminable shopping and keeping up with the Joneses in the… 20 years ago
India, run with the big guys now! The media and the government breathed a sigh of relief that the agony of the Hong Kong WTO ministerial is… 20 years ago
Jail for watching <i>King Kong</i> at home? Clifton, Karachi Dec 1, 2005: It is dusk in this upmarket shopping area, which is a bit like a blend… 20 years ago
More waves in the Dinesh Dalmia story Last week, the Securities Appe-llate Tribunal (Sat) ordered Dinesh Dalmia, the incorrigible chief of DSQ Software, to buy back unlisted… 20 years ago
Re-peddling the fear of the foreign hand Despite 15 years of liberalisation, despite high growth in every sector in which FDI came and despite no Indian industry… 20 years ago
Million dollar art club The results of the Saffronart.com online auction of December 6-8 show one that despite the splurge in the share market,… 20 years ago
A New Year resolution for the PM One year older, and we should be one year more mature but alas, the endless sillinesses of life in India… 20 years ago
India?s strategic and cyclical headwinds Narendra Singh Sarila, a former ADC to Lord Mountbatten, had written a book about the partition of India. Apparently, at… 20 years ago
Reluctance to recognise clear warning signals Sometimes, an academic approach to issues can suppress warning signals of systemic weaknesses by dismissing these as one-off aberrations. The… 20 years ago
Buying art for tomorrow Last week we noted how while the Mumbai group of artists topped the bulk sales, it was the group of… 20 years ago
Building pressure in run-up to Hong Kong Who sets the rules international traders must follow? Kamal Nath and his fellow trade ministers, of course, which is why… 20 years ago
Positions are being treated as private property The number of positions?ministerial, professional, managerial or civil service?is always very few compared to the multitude of aspirants. But once… 20 years ago
Can we stay the course on urban reforms? Just before the Prime Minister left for Moscow, he launched the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The Prime… 20 years ago
Wasting it all in the name of the poor The tussle between the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and the trade unions over interest rates to be paid on… 20 years ago
Big deal! The M&A party?s only just begun These columns had, in early 2004, talked of how the Indian marketplace was once again readying for a season of… 20 years ago
Will India back off from its <i>neti</i> doctrine? The draft ministerial text put out by the director-general of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, last week only reinforces the limited… 20 years ago
Can the EAS realise the Asian Dream? The East Asia Summit (EAS) scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur later this month, and attended by leaders of… 20 years ago
Expedient solutions to market problems As a junior reporter covering open outcry trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in the mid-1980s, I frequently heard… 20 years ago
Attention Delhi Metro commuters! Metro services to be available with a headway of 15 minutes this weekend
World’s highest railway bridge: Watch the journey of Indian Railways engineering marvel, Chenab Bridge
