Common citizen

Columns by date

loading

By Arun Maira |
Having more independent directors of corporations, or separating the roles of chairman and CEO, and even giving more…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
Weak investment demand would impede a higher growth trajectory. To top it, the predominance of consumption-led growth…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
In September 2016, with an amendment to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934, almost eight decades of operations…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
We are here because, as the RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya once put it: “Original promoters – who rarely put in any…
By Ajit Ranade |
Inequality cannot be remedied merely by depending on the goodwill and moral compulsions of the very rich. We have to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The asking price from the builders is (artificially held) steady and some are working almost like cartels to hold on to…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
A narrow direct-tax base, a retrograde direct-indirect tax structure, widespread tax evasion, complex tax rules, an…