The winner’s curseNow that the fizz has gone out of the global economy, our own economy is flying low on a single, sputtering engine: government spending.
February 25, 2009
Lalu and other accidental reformersOne of the major miracles of the UPA regime has been the dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of the railways.
February 23, 2009
The Bihar connectionThe Satyam fraud investigations are meandering into irrelevance. A curious convergence of political, regional and business interests is conspiring to derail the probe.
February 12, 2009
There’s enough money for the needy, not for the greedyThe other day, the promoter of Subhiksha, a beleaguered grocery chain, summed up the corporate world’s current dilemma simply.
February 9, 2009
India’s Million MutiniesAre we missing the larger picture here? What we are seeing is a demography-driven upsurge of angst and violence involving youth.
February 4, 2009
Why Andhra is epicentre of the biggest scamOur central government neither central to us nor does it govern. It is run by a cabal of state-level strongmen for defending their narrow political bases
February 2, 2009
Capitalism isn’t going to pop anytime soonThe crack and totter of some of the pillars of capitalism — Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and General Motors, to name just a few — suggests that the roof may cave in soon.
January 29, 2009
Devaluing bravery?The unseemly scramble preceding this year’s Ashok Chakra awards shows how political and fickle the process has become.
January 28, 2009
A salad-bowl AmericaWith one simple sentence, Barack Hussein Obama, America’s first Afro-American president, redefined the past, present and future of his country and the rest of the world.
January 21, 2009
Satyam scandal whiffs of a bank scamIf there is one watchdog that is still moving sluggishly on the Satyam scandal, it is the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
January 14, 2009
God, please leave us some inflationAs an agnostic, I am not much into prayer. But bad times are here, and there’s no harm in a bit of almighty insurance cover.
January 10, 2009
How TV brought us close to warIf the post-26/11 TV coverage hasn’t converted you into a rabid warmonger or, alternatively, made you puke uncontrollably, you must be made of sterner stuff.
January 7, 2009
Why business houses will shrinkUsed as they are to conglomerate thinking, the global meltdown and weak market for equity financing will force Indian business houses to focus on their core businesses and dump the rest.
January 5, 2009
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