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The "trapped" investor

This is the curious predicament of the inherited, "trapped" investor. The shareholder is stuck...

Centre sets off worrying tensions with Mumbai

A highly strained relationship between Maharashtra and New Delhi is being tested by the recent...

‘Healthy scepticism’ is crucial for company...

How are directors supposed to make use of the transactional approach? Basically, to challenge...

Why the SBI-led consortium came to YES Bank’...

By the time this story attracts the attention of hassled stakeholders, the curtains on the rescue...

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Politics

Republic TV: Where vaudeville meets vicious

There is little doubt among many reasonably well-informed people that there is an ugly mix of the...

Biden in, Trump out: America’s revolving...

For nearly four days America, nay the world, held its breath waiting for the November 3 US...

Closer Indo-American ties contingent on...

Kamala Harris will become the first ever Vice President of America to have Indian ancestry. Senator...

The fall of America (UPDATED version)

This looks like a nail-biting finish, with all the marks of suspense, swings, threats, bullies,...

Economy

In industrial policy don’t micro manage

Nokia was once the leader of the world in mobile phone handsets. Its largest manufacturing plant...

Saving India’s vintage private sector banks

Bank failures have achieved a hattrick within a short period: the PMC Bank, the Yes Bank and now...

RBI’s fuzzy focus on State finances

The RBI annual State finances study, released this year on Oct. 27, comes with the special theme it...

Why productivity is almost everything

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as...

Health

Red flags on tuberculosis as we fight Covid-...

Robert Koch discovered tuberculosis (TB) bacteria nearly 140 years ago, making this one of the...

How to live and thrive in the lockdown

For so many students sitting in their homes and not knowing when the lockdown will end for their...

Distancing matters, and how Gandhi saw it

‘Social distancing’ has become the phrase of the year, perhaps the decade. An essential practice in...

Role of humanity in healthcare

An 18-year-old girl had been brought out of one of the best-known public hospitals in the country...

Recent Columns

Why the SBI-led consortium came to YES Bank’...

By the time this story attracts the attention of hassled stakeholders, the curtains on the rescue...

RBI rises to the occasion

The MPC has done a good job in presenting an analysis of the situation arising out of the Covid-19...

Fukushima and the urgency of metanoia

Metanoia is from ancient Greek. It connotes penitence, a radical change of heart, amounting to a...

The purpose of a business

When I finished college in 1964, in the early years after India’s freedom, I wanted to help build...

Recent Diaries

A legacy transcending boundaries

Very few people outside India’s North-East are familiar with the achievements and legacy of one of...

Celebrating Covid-19 positivity

In the Covidomania atmosphere that has been prevailing for over five months, anything from a...

The extinction of āraṇyasanskriti?

India was once a land that worshipped trees. It was an āraṇyasanskriti, a civilisation rooted in...

On pain, dying and suffering

An infection in the child’s brain had left him semi-conscious, suffering continual pain from muscle...

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