There has been a lot of self-congratulation in India about the country?s escape from the financial crisis.
What a year 2009 has been and what a fitting end to the decade. The year saw a turnaround from…
One of the remarkable results of the crisis has been the rebalancing of global forces from the West to the…
Apart from the Congress, the Jan Sangh/BJP is the oldest party still around. The CPI is the only other. While…
Was Dubai a surprise to many people or only to those who were gullible enough to lend it money? The…
The fate of the Copenhagen Summit was sealed in Beijing at the G-2 meeting last week. This is the new…
Of all the innovations that have shaped our lives in recent years, none has been more influential than the destruction…
One thing that has come out of the financial crisis is a new world economic order. Or so at least…
The Human Development Report of the UNDP attracts a lot of attention partly for the theme it chooses each year…
The Chandrayaan has detected water on the moon. When you see the NASA presentation, you realise why physical sciences are…
The one thought I have on the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse is whether 9/15 was more harmful…
A week is a long time in politics. What a tumultuous time it has been in Indian politics. On August…
The IMF has said that it thinks the recession is over. The Economist celebrates the resilience of the Asian economies.…
There is just a faint chance that a sensible economic policy is about to take shape with the new UPA…
Let us start with Sensex. On May 18, the market had gone through the roof and trading had to be…
When the crisis erupted last September after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, the mood was apocalyptic. Many if not most analysts…
Now that the uncertainty is over, the real danger is of too high expectations. The decimation of the Left has…
It could not get better. The election verdict is stunning in its simplicity and in its definitiveness. Not only has…
