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By Nawshir Mirza |
For a society that claims several thousand years of civilisation, why are our cities so ugly? When we travel overseas,…
By Ajit Ranade |
One of the most telling episodes in the aftermath of the failure of Yes Bank is the scramble by State governments to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The dramatic developments in the case of Yes Bank will bring new shock waves to a financial sector that is already…
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…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
The Australian inferno is a signpost to the future ecology of the earth. Almost three quarters of the country’s land-…
By Ajit Ranade |
They are the two largest democracies in the world, separated by some ten thousand miles. America’s war of independence…
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 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…
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…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting on February 06, 2020, unanimously resolved to keep the policy repo…
By Indira Hirway |
To begin with, the Finance Minister does not even recognise that the economy is experiencing a severe slow down! The…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Traditionally, the presentation of the Central government’s annual budget is an occasion to conjure up the image of the…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union budget 2020-21 comes against the backdrop of a massive slowdown of economic growth and escalating inflation.…
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 Jagdish Rattanani |
Given the national noise and the disruptions, the temper and the fury that now permeate our public discourses, it is…