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By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The RBI has been unable to exert itself on a crucial parameter, even when that crucial parameter impacts the way the…
By Martin Macwan |
The cases of recent violent caste-related attacks on dalit youth for sporting moustaches in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar…
By Ajit Ranade |
Can we focus on eliminating the loophole of tax shelters in direct taxes? Can we reduce the burden of indirect taxes,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The ill-effects of a host of rash moves like the rushed implementation of GST, the hare-brained scheme of…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
In the above context, what matters is not really the reduction in the policy rate, which is a signal to the banking…
By Usha Thorat |
As inflation had increased by two percentage points since the last policy -although below the target of four per cent –…
By Arun Maira |
India’s history is a composition of many histories. Any attempt to impose a single vision of India’s history is a fool’…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
While it is gratifying to see an obnoxious media person being caught out and go down, there is the larger and more…
By T C A Raghavan |
The Trump broadside has left many in Pakistan shaken but such pressures are intrinsically not new. It is evident that…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The fact that India stands out as a country with one of the highest increases in the top one per cent income share…
By Haresh Jagtiani |
Chipping away at the periphery of a person’s lifestyle would be the surest way to strike at the core of his being. And…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Infosys has been the crown jewel of the Indian corporate sector, a mascot for growth driven by values. The story of how…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
If one accepts IIM-A surveys, then the pressure is on the RBI to prove that its surveys are better. This is a technical…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
It is not inflation control per se which is important but the anchoring of inflation expectations when it comes to…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
What we have unfolding before us is the changing character of nationalised banking system, and early signs of sharp…