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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...
100,000 infections already?
We had 100,000 infections to result in 400 deaths, and we have just detected 10,000. So, we are...
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...
In Focus
COVID diary 1
Three pages from a linguist's restless...
Three Pages from a Linguist’s Restless Diary
Page One
On the evening our Prime Minister...
‘Community transmission has been happening...
As India prepares to partially lift the lockdown, Dr. T Jacob John talks to Jagdish Rattanani about...
"We have invited harm"
Dr. T Jacob John talks to Jagdish Rattanani about viruses and human evolution, impact on wildlife...
"People are reluctant to get tested...
Dr. T Jacob John talks to Jagdish Rattanani about partisan politics between centre and states,...
Economy
Time for a rethink on MF regulations
There has been an unprecedented outflow of funds from the open-ended, closed-ended debt/fixed...
RBI action and the limits thereof
There is no one to lend to, since economic activity is down, and so the funds end up in the vaults...
An economy driven by compassion
We need you send money into the hands of the poor. The big question is, where will the money come...
Fragile foundation of banking trust
One of the most telling episodes in the aftermath of the failure of Yes Bank is the scramble by...
Health
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...
Massive stimulus needed to combat Covid-19
Despite bitter political bickering, the United States passed its highest ever relief package to...
How far have we travelled in life, letters...
The idea that washing hands is an important step in fighting disease may seem common sense now but...
COVID diary 2
The introspective dog
Discussions with family and friends these days, offline or online, generally tend to culminate in...
A hamlet up a hill
Sulki Mahudi, a hamlet in Patiya village (Kherwara tehsil in district Udaiur of Rajasthan) is home...
'Tlawmngaihna'
Nothing is ordinary any more here in India, the country with the largest and most severe lockdown...
In Bedawal village
Meera Damor is a nurse at a primary healthcare clinic in Bedawal village, some 70 Km south of...
Politics
City needs support. Stop playing politics
The projection of a five-member Central team that Covid-19 cases in Mumbai will grow to over 6.5...
Facing the inevitable
Corona, speculative mischief suggests, must be of divine provenance. She has the intelligence to...
Kerala Budget and the Gandhi assassination
The cover of my Budget Speech was as much a subject of animated discussion as the Budget itself....
Delhi results and the road ahead for India
The nation awaits with bated breath the results of the New Delhi Assembly elections today. The BJP...
Recents
A flood of liquidity but how will it help
In times like never before, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has acted like never before. This...
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...
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...
Did Vikram have a ‘hard landing’ or did it...
Great science results from great contestation. It is in this spirit that I have contested the...
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