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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

NEWS does not have to scream from the headlines to be news. In fact, it is probably one of the failings of the media that…

JAYME SAYS MANILA TAKES HEART FROM MEXICO DEAL

Manila wants better repayment terms than lenders gave Mexico

The Best Companies to Work for

At Business Today we write about companies all the time. Often, it is a top-down view. We meet the Chief Executive Officer, the senior members…

The Luxury Issue

Looking down at my bowl of gazpacho at dinner one recent night. I realised that I do not own a single moustache spoon, with guards,…

Fuzzy

Caprice and cowardice were both on display last fortnight. Ten days after a bunch of state election results delivered a hard punchi in the Congress…

Energy Shock: India Story Risks Running Out Of Steam

This has been a summer of discontent, and the portents are not auspicious. One day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced his second underwhelming Cabinet…

Home Truths

And now at the end he found himself in his own house, on his own half-lot of land, his own portion of the earth. That…

UTTAR PRADESH – PEACE OF THE GRAVEYARD

I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. Yes it is. Vishwanath Pratap Singh had cause to be…

Suppressing Dissent?

EVERY dissenter is in a minority of one, and K. Ashok Rao, 36, deputy manager in Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), is discovering what it…

UNTIL DEATH DO US PART

No Amount of civilised debate can take away from the savagery of the traditional Indian marriage. In the last few weeks, eight women have died…

POWER PROBLEM

September 1981 to go into the question of revising the rates of forest produce. The eight-member committee, chaired by the chief secretary, consisted of the…