On March 18, 2023 The New York Times published a story “A Four Decade Secret: One man’s story of Carter’s re-election”. The story set off a flurry of reports all over…
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By Ajit Ranade |
In November 2008, just weeks after the Lehman crash, at a high-profile briefing by top academics at the London School of Economics, the Queen asked a simple question.…
By GN Bajpai |
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered defined benefits to retirees. There is much pull for…
By Nachiket Mor |
It is true that we cannot ignore the more commen ailments which, too, cause death and devastation in families, but separating the rare high cost treatments from the more…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray has now come out to say that the Covid-19 pandemic “most likely” started after a…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s relative fast pace of economic growth raises the question: when will India be-come a developed country? In 2002 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had declared…
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For the politicians of this world who keep fighting over territories, who try to differentiate between us or draw dividing lines, I would challenge them to look at a…
By Arun Maira |
When the drumbeats of a $5 trillion and $10 trillion economy don't stir me, business leaders ask me, don't I want India to grow? I say, of course I do. I stand and sing…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Chief Justice of India, Dr. Justice D Y Chandrachud, has made some very timely and significant comments on the state of our elite institutions in the light of the…
By Vappala Balachandran |
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union Address, which is the annual message delivered by the President to a joint session of the United…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which consists of members from across all political parties, in its report of last April highlighted the importance of…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
India works with the principles of cooperative federalism under which expenditure made and taxes raised are both responsibilities shared between the Centre and the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It has happened before. A business grows, builds connections, grabs political patronage and thinks it can get away with anything. The game works for a while. The swell of
By Thomas Isaac |
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24, presented last week in Parliament, will ensure that the quality-of-life…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
At the end of its three-day meeting on February 8 – its last for the current fiscal – the MPC of the RBI resolved to raise the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.…