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India looks back in frustration at queen’s visit

Keep Your Expectations Low

In a spirited panel discussion moderated by Business Today editor Chaitanya Kalbag, Yashwant Sinha, MP and former finance minister, M. Damodaran, former SEBI chairman, Satya…

An Agenda for India

“Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” Prison Chaplain in A Clockwork Orange The ice…

What the Government Needs to Do Now

Despite the crisis, a clear message must be sent to the investor community that India is open for business. There was an initial spurt of…

Earthy Tales

Last week I was on a flight to Mumbai About two hours in, the captain an- nounced that there was unseasonal heavy rain ahead and…

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…

Do Not Miss trade Bus to India, PM tells S Africa

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a group of senior Indian and South African businessmen on Monday that he was confident India can accelerate economic growth…

SA lends India N-hand

Pretoria gets New Delhi’s support for Security Council seat The Leader of India and South Africa made a strategic trade off on Monday India decisively…

Identify Yourself

The Fates Of the four million people whose names did not appear in the ‘complete draft’ of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam…

TELLING NUMBERS

Look Carefully at all the Headlines, screaming or otherwise, that are popping up these days about corruption. How many of them feature women? Study after…

The Dog’s tail

There is no loophole that has not met an Indian taxpayer. A Hindi proverb says you can never straighten a dog’s tail (kutte ki poonch…).…