After the Congress lost the election in 1996, and during the 13-day rule of the BJP, there was a revealing…
It is a very delicate moment in economic diagnostics. Is the crisis at a turning point? Is the patient about…
The Hippocratic Oath contains the injunction: above all do no harm. The G-20 which concluded in London last Thursday fulfilled…
For 15 years between 1992 and 2007, the global economy prospered in part because China and India saw substantial growth…
Faced with a horrendous financial crisis, which we all failed to foresee, political leaders and economists are eager to jettison…
On eve of the election, questions are bound to be asked about the performance of the UPA in as far…
As always, the best insight comes from Sherlock Holmes. Readers will recall that in one story, the clue was the…
The Prime Minister is back home and let us hope recuperating nicely. He now has some leisure to think and…
It is difficult to imagine any other inauguration of an American President which has raised such immense hopes. John Kennedy…
?A week is a long time in politics?. said that famous cynic Harold Wilson. For ?Satyam? Raju, three weeks was…
Capitalism is an indulgent mistress, but a cruel master. For fifteen years, the world enjoyed globalisation. Lives were transformed across…
The NREGA does not work the way it is supposed to. Arjun Sengupta?s Commission has reported that only 25 days…
Mumbai will never be Shanghai. It should worry that it does not become Beirut. Lebanon was once a prosperous nation…
The crisis, which started sometime in August 2007, has deepened rather than abetted. In September this year when Lehman Brothers…
At last it has happened. A man with a strange name?Barack Hussein Obama?has been elected to serve as the 44th…
The Americans and the British were the main players . The intellectual leadership was provided by Keynes, but the financial…
Crisis is a medical term and it refers to the state of a patient where she is on the cusp;…
Some people are getting rather happy about the crisis. They see it as the final collapse of capitalism, the exposure…
