When I finished college in 1964, in the early years after India’s freedom, I wanted to help build India. A career in business was not attractive then, though one would…
Columns, et al
Columns by date
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Amid reports that the visit of US President Donald Trump will be an occasion to ask India to open itself to dairy (and poultry) imports from the US, it is good to look…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
The Australian inferno is a signpost to the future ecology of the earth. Almost three quarters of the country’s land-mass is classified as ‘arid’, ‘semi-arid’ or ‘desert…
By Ajit Ranade |
They are the two largest democracies in the world, separated by some ten thousand miles. America’s war of independence two and half centuries ago, began with a tax…
By Thomas Isaac |
The cover of my Budget Speech was as much a subject of animated discussion as the Budget itself. The striking painting by Tom Vattakuzhy showing the death of Mahatma Gan
By |
Banknotes or currency notes have been traditionally printed on paper made from cotton rags.
By Devidas Tuljapurkar |
The Economic Survey for 2019-20, in Chapter 7 on page 158 puts it on record that “PSBs are clearly not efficient today”. This is the statement issued by the owner of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation awaits with bated breath the results of the New Delhi Assembly elections today. The BJP left no stone unturned to polarise the atmosphere. Everything was in…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC of the RBI unanimously kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.15% in its last meeting this fiscal year on Thursday. This was almost universally anticipated,…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting on February 06, 2020, unanimously resolved to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.15 per cent. In line with…
By Indira Hirway |
To begin with, the Finance Minister does not even recognise that the economy is experiencing a severe slow down! The budget is presented as if there is no slow down.
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Traditionally, the presentation of the Central government’s annual budget is an occasion to conjure up the image of the mythical wish-fulfilling tree for an average…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union budget 2020-21 comes against the backdrop of a massive slowdown of economic growth and escalating inflation. It was expected that the budget would put in place…
By Ajit Ranade |
The macro context to the Union Budget was grim. Nominal growth rate which is at a forty two year low, bank credit flow which has collapsed despite ample liquidity, manufa
By Ganesh N Devy |
Delhi is charming. Its charm has not failed in fascinating anyone. The Pandavas who are believed to have built the shining Indraprastha city somewhere close to what is…