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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
Indian workers need better employers
The fundamental problem that must be solved immediately for the Indian economy to recover from the...
The half trillion forex milestone
The border conflict in eastern Ladakh has claimed twenty brave soldiers, killed in an unimaginably...
Some out-of-the-box ideas for a fiscal...
The pandemic and lockdown have deeply hurt the economy. This year the world’s economy will shrink...
Loan waivers are a double-edged sword
The first recorded instance of granting loans to peasants in medieval India dates back to the...
Health
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...
Shift focus from hospitals to primary care
The detection, isolation and management of coronavirus-infected people in India has so far been...
How Kerala responded to COVID-19
It was about a week back that Kerala had the dubious distinction of having the highest number of...
Politics
Business friendly, environment unfriendly
On March 23, as the country faced a complete lockdown that left millions of migrant workers...
Rethinking healthcare in India
The Indian government is easing, slowly, the lockdown of 1.3 billion people. India’s...
Understanding the Chinese border incursions
It is disappointing to find Indian websites not easily yielding the text of the epoch making 1993 “...
BJP is playing a dirty and dangerous game in...
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his party the Shiv Sena are today confronted with...
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
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...
Nature takes a deep breath
Thoughts and experiences from the Himalayas and metropolitan India as we live through a lockdown
Our education system fails many tests
By Ishan Chauhan
Accidents happen. They are accidents because they are unforeseeable. When a...
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