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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…
By Ganesh N Devy |
Delhi is charming. Its charm has not failed in fascinating anyone. The Pandavas who are believed to have built the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Given the national noise and the disruptions, the temper and the fury that now permeate our public discourses, it is…
By M Govinda Rao |
The Budget to be presented on February 1 is being keenly watched for a number of reasons. First, the Finance Minister…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the current times, the biggest problem with unpacking the economic situation is that economic levers are seen in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The upcoming Union Budget presentation will be the first full year budget in the Seventeenth Lok Sabha. The backdrop is…
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Great science results from great contestation. It is in this spirit that I have contested the assertion by the…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy is at the crossroads, grappling as it is now with a massive slowdown and escalating inflation. The…
By Ajit Ranade |
In last year’s Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken about investing 100 lakh crore rupees (…
By Arun Maira |
“The time has come,” said the Walrus to the Carpenter in Lewis Carrol’s poem, “to talk of many things”. The year 2019…
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The internet has become an inextricable part of life. The recent shutdown of the internet in various parts of India has…
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Violence of an unprecedented kind flared up at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday evening, drawing…
By Nawshir Mirza |
It sounds progressive and high-minded but is, in reality, turning a necessity into a virtue. It is a red herring to…
By Nawshir Mirza |
Well intentioned boards and “promoters” of companies look for a variety of attributes in their directors. These include…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
We are living through one of the darkest periods of independent India. The Emergency was bad. This is soul wrenching,…