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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
We will need a series of actions that fix structural issues and can drive change in the medium and longer term. There is in the end no quick fix to the given situation.…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The huge downside of this experience for doctors at the start of their career will certainly mark them for life. This will possibly shape them, even scar them, and many…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It will be sometime before the depth of Narendra Modi’s electoral sweep sinks in and a much longer time before the phenomenon is better understood. The Prime Minister…

The new NDA government will take charge in the last week of May 2019. The immediate task before the government is to prepare and present the Union budget.

By Sudarshan Iyengar |

There is an old saying in Sanskrit. यथा राजा तथा प्रजा  - as the King so are the people.

By Ajit Ranade |
After the exit polls on May 19 predicted a landslide victory for the National Democratic Alliance, the stock market in Mumbai gave a euphoric salute, and the index broke…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economic growth for the past three years has declined from 8.2 to 7.2 to 7.0 percent. The latest quarterly growth rate is 6.6 percent, and the January to March…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Clawbacks are not uncommon in the US and can be particularly gratifying for shareholders and many groups of stakeholders, particularly when the money being taken back is…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are a host of considerations that rule, and not all of them are easily fathomed by city folk who tend to prefer the so-called national parties and pre-set…
By Aseem Shrivastava , Aryaman Jain |
The rise of Hindutva in a country that was thought to be largely secular has flummoxed many. Whatever the outcome of this general election, the BJP and its parent, the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Even for those who might have held Rajiv Gandhi culpable in the mass of allegations around the Bofors gun, his death brought that conversation to an end. That is the Ind
By Ajit Ranade |
In less than a month we will have elected the seventeenth Lok Sabha. The seat tally across parties will determine who gets to form the next government. Since exit polls…
By Jagdish Rattanani |

About two years ago, Stanford University’s Dr.

By Haresh Jagtiani |
Facing a charge of sexual misconduct, the CJI can convene a bench of three male justices, including himself, invite the Attorney General to speak on his behalf, admonish…
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India is dealing with a serious crisis of employment despite achieving higher than global average rates of GDP growth consistently for many years. The crisis has many…