It may sound uncharitable to say that the Kirit Parikh Committee Report on Pricing of Petroleum Products is quite banal…
A couple of days before the credit policy was announced, it was interesting to hear some of the chiefs of…
The economic indicators announced in the last month or so have been very encouraging. The IIP growth number for the…
The McKinsey-EY Report on consolidation of public sector banks is timely because this is the time when RBI should have…
Shakespeare had said: ?All the world?s a stage…? Yes, we are mere players but irony often enters the characters when…
The 0.9% growth number in agriculture for Q2 of this year has spoilt the otherwise joyous party that spoke of…
There is a feeling of d?j? vu in our official reaction to the Dubai crisis when we say that India…
The current imbroglio on sugarcane pricing needs deeper thought. The issue basically is that the minimum price to be paid…
Disinvestment has been a glowing controversy ever since we first spoke about it several years ago. It came in the…
How important is a transaction of 200 tonnes of gold from an economic standpoint? At the moment, we have a…
The creation of committees and reports is a hallmark of all bureaucracies. The RBI has just brought out for discussion…
It is quite appropriate that the Nobel Prize in Economics this year has been awarded to persons who have worked…
In the early 1980s it was quite common to see Rajiv Gandhi on TV, talking convincingly to a large gathering…
Two apparently unrelated attractive investment avenues are real estate and gold both of which have shown similar proclivities of late.
Just as September 11 was a wake-up call for the battle against terrorism, September 15 has become symbolic of vaulting…
The bath tub inspired not just Archimedes but also Alan Greenspan who coined the phrase ?irrational exuberance? centuries later in…
Just think of a product valued at Rs 50,000 crore that is consumed by individuals who contributearound Rs 20,000-22,000 crore…
The ?green shoots? theory is cloaked ironically in black humour as the shoots in the fields will probably not blossom…
