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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...
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...
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Economy
Monetary policy is not a panacea
The monetary policy and associated statements and documents announced on Thursday (Aug. 06) unfold...
MPC prepares for long haul to recovery
Despite some notable contrarian opinions in this regard, a majority of the analysts and market...
Risks to financial stability
This past week saw the near simultaneous publication of two books by senior former Central bankers...
A theory of fiscal dominance in India
Viral Acharya argues that fiscal dominance provides the basis for a “theory of everything” that...
Health
ICMR’s research in a rush
There is much to criticise the ICMR for its recent diktat to deliver a vaccine for COVID-19 caused...
Vaccines can’t be express delivered
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Dr. Balram Bhargava, who is a...
Rethinking healthcare in India
The Indian government is easing, slowly, the lockdown of 1.3 billion people. India’s...
Pandemic should not rob the dead of dignity
The pandemic has brought with it many horror stories not the least of which is the way in which the...
Politics
The colour of a conquest
A 22-kilogram silver brick marks the symbolic laying of the foundations of what we are promised...
China’s BRI stands on uncertain ground
Much has already been written on the objectives of the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) from the Chinese...
Prospects for India China trade after Galwan
Forty years ago India and China had roughly the same economic size, measured as GDP in dollars....
Business friendly, environment unfriendly
On March 23, as the country faced a complete lockdown that left millions of migrant workers...
Recent Columns
The purpose of a business
When I finished college in 1964, in the early years after India’s freedom, I wanted to help build...
Lessons for India from the Australian inferno
The Australian inferno is a signpost to the future ecology of the earth. Almost three quarters of...
Why isn't India using polymer banknotes?
Banknotes or currency notes have been traditionally printed on paper made from cotton rags. The...
Balanced approach to monetary easing
The MPC of the RBI unanimously kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.15% in its last meeting...
Recent Diaries
Why businesses invest in China
It is natural for a nation to respond in swift and possibly inconvenient ways to national health...
Dignity versus investment
You, a common reader who is fortunate not to be a person with disability, or any one else for that...
The ailment that is the human condition
The Coronavirus pandemic is often likened to the Great Influenza Pandemic or Spanish flu that...
A new economy that is good for everyone
Covid19 has revealed a dangerous disease the Indian economy is suffering from...
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