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FM, please close the dragon’s maw
July 22, 2024, 7:59 AM IST
When GOI presents its Budget 2024 tomorrow, what would be really useful is a focus on forging a new economic strategy, which is now crucial to counter the challenge to investment and growth posed by…
July 22, 2024, 7:59 AM IST
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Soak the rich? Won’t help the poor
April 25, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
As tumbrels trundled their way to the guillotine over the cobbled streets of Paris, carrying their load of the former lords of the land, the crones who sat watching and knitting debated many things, but…
April 25, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
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Three things follow from GOI’s latest GDP figures
March 1, 2024, 9:39 AM IST
One, it signals govt is a good economic manager. Two, it encourages India Inc to invest. Three, it gives RBI more flexibility to manage rupee. Most global investors are consumed by the ascent of stock…
March 1, 2024, 9:39 AM IST
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Savers Need Different Sahara
November 16, 2023, 9:04 AM IST
Subrata Roy exploited a credit market gap and played the political system. But decades later, informal credit thrives & there are too few investment opportunities. Subrata Roy was indeed a titan of Indian business, rising…
November 16, 2023, 9:04 AM IST
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Angry Gods’ own country: That an explosion at a Jehovah’s witnesses meet raised Kerala’s political discourse to fever-pitch shows how multiple forms of radicalisation are roiling the multi-religious state
October 31, 2023, 8:38 AM IST
What would happen to God’s own country, if, instead of smiling down on a thin strip of green tropical glory, sandwiched between spice-bearing mountain slopes to the east and manycoloured sand and surf to the…
October 31, 2023, 8:38 AM IST
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Shadow of Sheikhs on Gaza
October 16, 2023, 8:22 AM IST
Like Israeli hardliners, Arab regimes don’t want a democratic Palestinian state. Such a state may well threaten govts defined by the kings-emirs-theocracy formula As Israel pounds the Gaza Strip, targeting Hamas after its terror strike…
October 16, 2023, 8:22 AM IST
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Message from the moon: Tech advances aside, what Chandrayaan-3 proved is how people just like us can dare to dream of pulling off complex missions. And there’s the big spinoff for national security
August 26, 2023, 9:19 AM IST
India is on the Moon, Indians are over the Moon. Such is the delight and pride in India becoming the fourth nation after the US, Russia and China to land a craft intact on the…
August 26, 2023, 9:19 AM IST
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Rail accidents & a dangerous cultural deficit: Public safety isn’t a priority in the Indian mindset. So, we are irresponsible when we drive on roads & in railways, negligence or worse is often not punished
June 5, 2023, 8:52 AM IST
In the wake of one of the worst train accidents last Friday at Balasore, Odisha, journalists have turned an unsparing spotlight on rail safety. Many unsavoury features of Indian Railways now stand exposed in the…
June 5, 2023, 8:52 AM IST
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SC corrects error of Commission, with one omission: For true functional independence, EC should also be made accountable to a parliamentary committee
March 3, 2023, 2:25 AM IST
By directing the Election Commission to be appointed by a non-partisan panel, the Supreme Court strengthens democracy. But more needs to be done for institutional independence. EC, as well as all other regulatory bodies made…
March 3, 2023, 2:25 AM IST
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What he didn’t survey: CEA’s report card should have paid as much attention to economy’s weaknesses as it did to its achievements
February 1, 2023, 2:25 AM IST
Telling truth to power is, of course, the job of journalists. But it used to be the case that the pre-Budget Economic Survey took pains to highlight challenges (near-term, as well as structural) that policy…
February 1, 2023, 2:25 AM IST
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What India needs from West is good for West: Invest in emissions technology, genuinely mediate in Ukraine and open up immigration to US
October 5, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
There are three things India needs from the West at this juncture. One, massive, urgent carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere, creating net negative emissions to avert climate disaster that ravages the world equally…
October 5, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
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The chairman who kept a low profile: As Tatas’ chief Cyrus Mistry was careful and cautious, more a manager than a visionary
September 5, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
When Cyrus Mistry was announced as the chosen successor to Ratan Tata to lead the Tata Group, after prolonged speculation over the beneficiary of that inevitable leadership change, the Economic Times ran a headline that…
September 5, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
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Apart from the foreign hand: Persistent inflation in India is a clear sign of mismanaged tradeoffs both at home and globally
July 11, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
What has macroeconomic management got to do with old filmy villain Ajit’s penchant for drowning his enemies in liquid oxygen, so that the liquid would not let them live, even as the oxygen would not…
July 11, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
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Davos is so 1990s: The jamboree has lost shine, thanks to social media, Asia’s rise & global elite’s failure to solve problems
May 24, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
We had joy, we had fun/ We had seasons in the sun. Although that seems an inappropriate elegy for Davos – the Swiss town that hosts the World Economic Forum is not exactly sun-drenched –…
May 24, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
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Does G7 Matter? Does it make a difference to India? A 7-step quick guide to the 7-country summit
June 15, 2021, 2:10 AM IST
Is G7 the club of biggest economies? No. G7 used to be the club of richest countries in 1970s – the US, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada. But now the seven biggest economies…
June 15, 2021, 2:10 AM IST
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June 12, 2020, 8:14 PM IST
State Bank of India and the Indian Banks’ Association have once again revived the proposal for a bad bank. It is not just desirable but imperative, if India’s broken banks are to start lending again,…
June 12, 2020, 8:14 PM IST
April 17, 2020, 7:05 PM IST
You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. This is an old saying, so old that people who have not touched a horse in their real life, leave alone tried…
April 17, 2020, 7:05 PM IST
March 3, 2020, 11:18 PM IST
The coronavirus that has killed more than 3,100 people, most of them in China, and spread to more than 60 countries is a threat, but not a cause for panic. It calls for a coordinated…
March 3, 2020, 11:18 PM IST
February 18, 2020, 11:24 PM IST
Backstage is a modest name for the memoir of a man who has little to be modest about. Montek Singh Ahluwalia has been involved with economic policymaking in India at senior levels from 1979 till…
February 18, 2020, 11:24 PM IST
February 11, 2020, 1:46 PM IST
BJP has been dealt a resounding defeat by the voters of Delhi, after the party delivered the most divisive, polarising campaign in recent memory, one which has succeeded in convincing quite a few voters that…
February 11, 2020, 1:46 PM IST
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