The finance minister has exuded confidence at a press meet in Melbourne. He said, ?When I rise to present the…
The Nobel Peace Prize is the culmination of several international awards that Prof Muhammad Yunus has received for decades of…
The Congress party?s discussion at Nainital on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) has been the subject of much analysis, speculation, discussion,…
1980 Parliamentary elections. Queuing up to cast my vote, I found an altercation going on in the booth, with an…
The recently announced Defence Procurement Policy (DPP), followed closely by the Defence Procurement Manual, is an indicator of a new…
The finance minister?s letter to the vice chairman of the Planning Commission is interesting from several points of view. First,…
The Economist this week has a piece on the India Development Policy Review published recently by the World Bank. There…
There appears to be a period of uncertainty in the global economic indices that is working its way down to…
In A recent book, Documenting Reforms- Case Studies from India (Macmillan, 2006), several eminent authors have traced the successes and…
Some months ago, the new National Pharmaceutical Policy was put out on the web for comments by the department of…
?The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many thingsOf shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages…
A recent speech by Raghuram Rajan of the IMF, at a conference of central bankers on June 8, makes interesting…
The volatility in the markets was less on Tuesday and everyone in government has congratulated himself?on whatever. There have been…
The trade blockade has now been lifted by Nepal. Over a thousand trucks of products, juices, edible oil, garments and…
There are 265 universities, 13,150 colleges, 8.821 million students and 0.427 million teachers (2003 figures) that make India one of…
A friend quoted Confucius to me the other day: ?A king must rule as you would fry a small fish?…
At the India-Japan symposium in Tokyo on Friday last, the outlook on the India-US nuclear power agreement ranged between cautious…
