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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
Hathras heinousness and how to stop it
Hathras is the first case of Independent India where the State has deprived the parents of sexual...
Deep rot of a lawless State
The overwhelming feeling that comes to mind about the manner in which the Uttar Pradesh...
Indian version of McCarthyism takes hold
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to building as also to breaking – be it a policy, an...
Why are questions being silenced?
The contempt of court case against the Tamil actor Suriya (which was fortunately and wisely dropped...
Economy
Why productivity is almost everything
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as...
Moratorium and loan waivers versus credit...
Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they...
Should RBI be the debt manager of the govt
There was a unanimous decision to hold the policy repo rate constant primarily because the headline...
Overarching fiscal dominance in RBI policy
The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, which concluded its third meeting for 2020-21 on Friday,...
Health
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
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...
Ratna-Harish’s diary takes us back to the...
She arrived in India (Bikaner) in August 1947 unaware that she would never return to her beautiful...
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