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By Ajit Ranade |
There have been a slew of reports and papers on the Indian economy in the past two weeks. The most important one was the government’s own release of data on the economy.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
During the period May - December 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has increased the policy repo rate (PRR) under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF)…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |

As widely expected, the MPC raised the policy repo rate by 35 basis points to 6.25 per cent at the conclusion of its last bi-monthly meeting in 2022 on December 7.

By Jagdish Rattanani |
The stinging remarks by Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court in a case of the bulldozing of the house of a petitioner on a land dispute serves to highlight the n
By Ajit Ranade |
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality. We must rededicate ourselves to those founding principles as we…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the world of business, one of the less discussed issues is the sharp contrast between the ideals of free enterprise on the outside and the almost totalitarian way in w
By Ajit Ranade |
Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment carving out a new category of reserved quota for government jobs and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Horrific stories are emerging from the factories complex in Zhengzhou in central China owned and operated by Foxconn, which is the world’s largest assembler of Apple iPho
By Martin Macwan |
The successful agitation of Gujarat, the ‘Patidar Andolan’, demanding reservation brought us to the 103rd amendment to the constitution of India, granting 10 per cent…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
Elaben Bhatt breathed her last on 2 November 2022 at the age of 89. She was quintessentially a Gandhian volunteer. She was a critical observer, careful analyst, and…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Iran is on a boil. Women are up in arms and the uprising is being crushed by the Iranian government, making world headlines that once again point to the brutality…
By Ajit Ranade |
If you use the internet, you cannot do so without using Google. It is the oxygen of the internet. It is the name of a company, but it has become a verb in the English…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The election of Mallikarjun Kharge as the first non-Gandhi family President of the Congress in the 21st Century is good news not only for the Congress party but also the…
By Arun Maira |
Concepts of “social enterprises” are gaining some traction. Some are basically “more of the same”, only prettier. They remain conventional, limited liability companies;…
By Ajit Ranade |
The United Kingdom has had four Prime Ministers in the last six years. Their most recent Chancellor of the Exchequer (i.e., the finance minister) was sacked in a record…